Comment by rybosome

Yeah, very much agreed that in the spirit of good discussion I should’ve at least asked about their experiences and use case before jumping to finger wagging.

But that said, let me reiterate a couple important points from my post:

> With no disrespect meant

I’m not calling anybody an idiot because they aren’t using an LLM. I’m sharing my honest opinion that they’re not using it correctly, but that’s very different than calling them an idiot.

> if you’re unable to find utility in these tools

This is a bit lawyerly, but note my carefully generic wording here: “find utility”. If you’re a Rust developer who doesn’t like the Rust output from your LLM, sure - but that’s not 100% of the job.

You’ll also touch bash scripts, make files, YAML, JSON or TOML config, write bug reports/feature requests, discuss architectural ideas and coding patterns, look through stack traces/dumps/error logs, or whatever else.

My point is that it is exceedingly unlikely that there is nothing an LLM can do to help your work, even if it’s not good at writing code in your domain.

Hence the statement that if you cannot find utility, you’re not using it correctly. It takes time to learn how to use these tools effectively, even in domains they excel in.