Comment by rsanheim
2 days ago
I don't think that dichotomy is true at all, at least not with experienced software people.
Many folks I know are skeptical of the hype, or maybe full on anti/distrustful, due to reasons I think are valid. But many of those same people have tried llm tools, maybe chatgpt or copilot or cursor, and recognize the value even w/ huge misgivings. Some of have gone further with tools like claude code and seen the real potential there, quite a step beyond fancy auto-complete or just-in-time agents...but even there you can end up in rabbit-holes and drowning in horrible design.
In your incredibly reductive scale, I'm closer to 'love' than 'skeptical', but I'm often much of both sides. But I'd never write a prompt like 'write me some typescript' for any real work, or honestly anything close to that, unless its just for memes or demonstrations.
But no-one who programs for a living uses prompts like that, at least not for real work. That is just silly talk.
I obviously don't mean that people literally write "write me some typescript", because nobody wants code that does something arbitrary. I'm also not saying that every reaction to ai falls between love and skeptical: I wrote a 3 sentence comment on a complex topic to sketch out an idea.
The tone of your comment suggests that my comment upset you, which wasn't my intent. But you have to try to be a little generous when you read other peoples stuff, or these discussion will get very tedious quickly.
Ironically, his comment does not come off at all as offended, but yours does.
It came off a little offensive ("...incredible reductive scale...") in my opinion.
I use it very routinely to generate tikz diagrams. It is obviously wrong and I need to manually tweak a little bit. But the hardest part is often to get something working at first, and in this AI is first class. It gets me 90% there, and rest is me.