Comment by techpression

This post feels quite dishonest. Every concern is countered with some variation of ”you’re wrong and I am right”, zero nuance.

I use Claude for specific questions, it works great (but apparently I’m doing it wrong according to the author), code generation doesn’t, I don’t want my boilerplate code to have subtle differences in every file, that’s the worst kind of boilerplate and that’s what I get if I automate it.

There are real world implications of all the infrastructure being built for this too, not to mention the extremely short e-waste cycles during the boom we’re in right now. To me it also seems like LLMs are the wrong thing to solve for, it’s like a gasoline car, make the engine larger and more fuel consuming to go faster and no matter how much you perfect it, it will still be fossil fuel being burnt at a high rate. What’s the alternative, I don’t think we know yet, but if we were a smarter species we would see that this is not it.