Comment by threeseed
6 days ago
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.