Comment by mjr00
2 days ago
This is disingenuous because LLMs were already writing full, simple applications in 2023.[0]
They're definitely better now, but it's not like ChatGPT 3.5 couldn't write a full simple todo list app in 2023. There were a billion blog posts talking about that and how it meant the death of the software industry.
Plus I'd actually argue more of the improvements have come from tooling around the models rather than what's in the models themselves.
What LLM were you using to build full applications in 2023? That certainly wasn’t my experience.
Just from googling, here's a video "Use ChatGPT to Code a Full Stack App" from May 18, 2023.[0]
There's a lot of non-ergonomic copy and pasting but it's definitely using an LLM to build a full application.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GizsSo-EevA
That's not at all what's being discussed in this article. We copy-pasted from SO before this. This article is talking about 99% fully autonomous coding with agents, not copy-pasting 400 times from a chat bot.
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