Comment by bigiain
7 days ago
> My issue with this term is that it muddies the waters for people who are using LLMs to assist with types of engineering beyond just writing code.
I'm now imagining me dying as a vibe-engineered truck has a steering/brake failure and crashes into me sending flying through the vibe-engineered papier-mâché bridge guardrails, and feeling sweet sweet release as I plummet to my doom.
It's easy to confuse cynicism for humor.
Look, if you enjoy calculating a table of dozens of resistor value combinations for a feedback network that prefers reels you have on your PnP, you keep knocking yourself out.
If you're using LLMs for a large number of arithmetic calculations, you're exactly the problem GP is talking about. If you absolutely must use AI get it to generate code that will perform the calculations instead, so that you can actually verify the result.
You're straining very hard to make your position sound reasonable, but your assumption that I both can't verify the values of the winning combination and wouldn't verify those values is simply not true.
In the example I cited, verifying a ratio isn't the hard part. It's running the dozens of permutations (smart) or hundreds of permutations (naive) that an LLM can do in 90 seconds that saves me hours of boring work. It's actually so repetitive that I'm likely to have made the same kind of mistakes you're alluding to.
As always, I end with encouragement: if you want to do everything the long and hard way, I'm not here to change your mind. You will have to stop being upset that others are moving much faster than you, though. It's a choice.
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Why can't it be both cynical and humorous? I personally got a good laugh from the paper-mache guardrails visualization