Comment by throw310822
15 hours ago
You really need to be obstinate in your convictions if you can dismiss LLMs at the time when everyone's job is being turned around by them. Everywhere I look, everyone I talk to, is using LLMs more and more to do their job and dramatically increase their productivity. It's one of the most successful technologies I've ever witnessed arriving on the market, and it's only just started- it's just three years old.
What are you seeing people do with it? To my eyes everyone is in the same amount of meetings lol.
For one, since last month, AI is writing about 95% of my code and that of my colleagues. I just describe what I want and how it should be implemented and the AI takes care of all the details, solves bugs, configuration issues, etc. Also I use it to research libraries, dig into documentation (and then write implementations based on that), discuss architectural alternatives, etc.
Non-developers I know use them to organise meetings, write emails, research companies, write down and summarise counselling sessions (not the clients, the counselor), write press reports, help with advertising campaigns management, review complex commercial insurance policies, fix translations... The list of uses is endless, really. And I'm only talking of work-related usage, personal usage goes of course well beyond this.
> You really need to be obstinate in your convictions if you can dismiss LLMs at the time when everyone's job is being turned around by them.
I'm factual. You are the one with the extraordinary claim that LLMs will find new substantial markets/go through transformative breakthrough.
> Everywhere I look, everyone I talk to, is using LLMs
And everywhere I look, I don't. It might be the case that you stand right in the middle of an LLMs niche. Never did I say that one doesn't exist or that LLMs are inadequate at parroting existing code.
> Non-developers I know use them […]
among those are:
- things that have nothing to do with LLMs/AI
- things that you should NOT use LLMs for the reason that they will give you confidently wrong and/or random answers (because it's not in their training data/cut-off window, it's non-public information, they don't have the computing abilities to produce meaningful results)
- things that are low-value/low-stakes for which people won't be willing to pay for when asked to
> The list of uses is endless
no, it is not
> And I'm only talking of work-related usage
and we will get to see rather sooner than later how much business actually value LLMs when the real costs will be finally passed on to them.
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