Comment by chinchilla2020
5 days ago
The reason I remain in the "skeptical" camp is because I am experiencing the same thing you are - I keep oscillating between being impressed, then disappointed.
Ultimately the thing that impresses me is that LLMs have replaced google search. The thing that disappoints me is that their code is often convincing but wrong.
Coming from a hard-engineering background, anything that is unreliable is categorized as bad. If you come from the move-fast-break-things world of tech, then your tolerance for mistakes is probably a lot higher.
This is a bit tangential, but isn't that partly because google search keeps evolving into a worse resource due to the SEO garbage race?
It is, AI lets you have an ad-free web browsing experience. This is a huge part of it as well.
LLM-generated blogspam is also accelerating this process
And are LLMs immune to that same SEO garbage race?