Comment by heathrow83829
6 days ago
the greatest proof that it's a useful tool is how much people are using it. Almost everyone is using it. If you're using it then you probably find it useful as well.
6 days ago
the greatest proof that it's a useful tool is how much people are using it. Almost everyone is using it. If you're using it then you probably find it useful as well.
a) If “everyone is using it”, show me the numbers. Doing a developer survey to see how many are using it is not hard. Ask a random sample of developers if they ⅰ use LLMs to aid their standard coding or ⅱ completely replace their coding with LLM output.
b) Even if “everyone is using it” it doesn’t mean it is useful. The usage could be adequately explained by e.g. marketing, being forced on them by management/policy, etc. Not everything with high usage is useful. I can e.g. quickly think of chewing gum (which is also used by a lot of developers), or the ANSI standard keyboard (as opposed to the ISO standard keyboard).
And the greatest proof that people are using software is that people are complaining about it.