Comment by lapcat
6 days ago
> If you were trying and failing to use an LLM for code 6 months ago, you’re not doing what most serious LLM-assisted coders are doing.
This sounds like the "No true Scotsman" fallacy.
> People coding with LLMs today use agents. Agents get to poke around your codebase on their own.
That's a nonstarter for closed source, unless everything is running on-device, which I don't think it is?
> Part of being a senior developer is making less-able coders productive
Speak for yourself. It's not my job.
You can run the agents on your own infrastructure (all the way down to a Mac Mini sitting on your desk), or Microsoft, OpenAI and I'm pretty sure Anthropic can sell you an Enterprise service that guarantees a certain level of confidentiality. I work in aerospace, one of the most paranoid industries, and even we got a Copilot subscription that met our needs...
> You can run the agents on your own infrastructure (all the way down to a Mac Mini sitting on your desk)
How does that work exactly? Do you have a link?
> Microsoft, OpenAI and I'm pretty sure Anthropic can sell you an Enterprise service that guarantees a certain level of confidentiality
These companies hoovered up all of our content without notice, permission, or compensation, to train their models. I wouldn't trust them one bit. My personal opinion is that it's foolish to trust them.
> I work in aerospace, one of the most paranoid industries
Paranoid about what exactly?
If you're not going to trust them when they say "here is a contract that guarantees we won't train on your data" because they trained on a scrape of the web, you're never going to get the benefit from these tools. I guess that's your call. I chose to believe companies when they contractually oblige themselves to not do things.
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> How does that work exactly? Do you have a link?
https://ollama.com lets you run models on your own hardware and serve them over a network. The you point your editor at that server, eg https://zed.dev/docs/ai/configuration#ollama
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