Comment by ookblah
2 days ago
"LLM evangelists - are you willing to admit that you just might not be that good at programming computers? Maybe you once were. Maybe you never were."
lol. is this supposed to be like some sort of "gotcha"! yes? like maybe i am a really shitty programmer and always just wanted to hack things together. what it has allowed me to do is prevent burnout to some extent, outsource the "boring" parts and getting back to building things i like.
also getting tired of these extreme takes but whatever, it's #1 so mission accomplished. llms are neither this or that. just another tool in the toolbox, one that has been frustrating in some contexts and a godsend in others and part of that process is figuring out where it excels and doesn't.
Not really.
I use LLMs for things I am not good at. But I also know I am not good at them.
No one is good at everything. 100% fine.
hmm, maybe you are not as good at using llms as you think then? lol jk.
i mean if you have imposter syndrome then this feeling will always be prevalent. how do you know what you are good at or not? i might be competent enough to have progressed this far in my career as in "results", but comparison to people i consider "good" devs always puts in that doubt.
i guess it strikes a chord when someone in the same breath of claiming to be open minded makes a backhand comment where people who like llms might just must be a shitty programmer or whatever. i get the point, but that line doesn't quite land the way you think it does.
hmm, maybe you are not as good at using llms as you think then? lol jk.
Oh yeah that's entirely possible. I think mentioned it several times in the article. One always has to be open to the possibility that one is just ignorant.
i guess it strikes a chord when someone in the same breath of claiming to be open minded makes a backhand comment where people who like llms might just must be a shitty programmer or whatever.
It does somewhat depress me that even in a very short article, people can't figure out I am talking about the irritating LLM Evangelists, not everyone who uses LLMs. It's in the title.
i get the point, but that line doesn't quite land the way you think it does.
Landed well enough to #1 on this hell site :)