Comment by burnte

> Current LLMs just are not as good as they are sold to be as a programming assistant and people consistently predict and self-report in the wrong direction on how useful they are.

I would argue you don't need the "as a programming assistant" phrase as right now from my experience over the past 2 years, literally every single AI tool is massively oversold as to its utility. I've literally not seen a single one that delivers on what it's billed as capable of.

They're useful, but right now they need a lot of handholding and I don't have time for that. Too much fact checking. If I want a tool I always have to double check, I was born with a memory so I'm already good there. I don't want to have to fact check my fact checker.

LLMs are great at small tasks. The larger the single task is, or the more tasks you try to cram into one session, the worse they fall apart.