Comment by dismalaf
2 days ago
I find LLMs are decent at regurgitating boilerplate. Basically the same kind of stuff you could google then copy-paste... AI chatbots, now that they have web access, are also good at going over documentation and save you a little time searching through the docs yourself.
They're not great at business logic though, especially if you're doing anything remotely novel. Which is the difficult part of programming anyway.
But yeah, to the average corporate programmer who needs to recreate the same internal business tool that every other company has anyway, it probably saves a lot of time.
They're great at helping me figure out how to make something work with a poorly-documented, buggy framework, which is indeed a large fraction of my job, whether I like it or not.
This isn't true, and I know it by what I'm working on and sorry, I'm not at liberty to give more details. But I see how untrue this is, every working hour of every day.
You say more details as if you gave any to begin with...
Here's a hint: What I input for inference is not in the training data. But the model can generalize well enough to handle the task.
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