Comment by IshKebab
6 days ago
This is the kind of non-serious argument he's talking about. There are plenty of tools that require supervision to get good results. That doesn't make them useless.
My 3D printer sometimes prints and sometimes makes spaghetti. Still useful.
They never said it was useless. You just invented that straw man in your head.
3D printing is largely used for prototyping where its lossy output is fine. But using it for production use cases requires fine tuning it can be 99.9% reliable. Unfortunately we can't do that for LLMs hence why it's still only suitable for prototyping.
But you can adjust the output of a LLM and still come out ahead in both time and mental effort than writing it by hand. Unlike a 3D printer, it doesn't have to be right the first time around to still be useful.
> But you can adjust the output of a LLM and still come out ahead in both time and mental effort than writing it by hand.
No you can't, or at least I can't. LLMs are more work than just doing it by hand.
There is a big difference between "not entirely useless" and best tool for the job.
You don't use 3D printing to do large-scale production. If you agree that AI should only be used in prototype code and nothing else, then your argument makes sense.
Depending on your definition of "large-scale production" Prusa famously 3d prints a number of components in their production 3d printers.