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Comment by otabdeveloper4

6 days ago

> they are generating outputs that satisfy (or at least attempt to satisfy) lots of different objectives across a wide range of requirements

No they aren't. You were lied to by the hype machine industry. Sorry.

The good news is that there's a lot of formerly intractable problems that can now be solved by generating plausible output. Programming is just not one of them.

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mindwok  6 days ago

> No they aren't. You were lied to by the hype machine industry. Sorry.

Ok. My own empirical evidence is in favour of these things being useful, and useful enough to sell their output (partly), but I'll keep in mind that I'm being lied to.

  • otabdeveloper4  6 days ago

    Quite a huge leap from "these things are useful" to "these things can code".

    (And yes, this leap is the lie you're being sold. "LLMs are kinda useful" is not what led to the LLM trillion dollar hype bubble.)