Comment by IAmGraydon
15 hours ago
I have never once seen this actually work in a way that produces a product I would use. People keep claiming these one-shot (or nearly one-shot) successes, but in the mean time I ask it to modify a simple CSS rule and it rewrites the enter file, breaks the site, and then can't seem to figure out what it did wrong.
It's kind of telling that the number of apps on Apple's app store has been decreasing in recent years. Same thing on the Android store too. Where are the successful insta-apps? I really don't believe it's happening.
https://www.appbrain.com/stats/number-of-android-apps
I've recently tried using all of the popular LLMs to generate DSP code in C++ and it's utterly terrible at it, to the point that it almost never even makes it through compilation and linking.
Can you show me the library of apps you've launched in the last few years? Surely you've made at least a few million in revenue with the ease with which you are able to launch products.
AI is typically better at working with AI-generated code than human-authored. AI on AI tends to work great.
This, of course, is the problem.
There's a really painful Dunning-Kruger process with LLMs, coupled with brutal confirmation bias that seems to have the industry and many intelligent developers totally hoodwinked.
I went through it too. I'm pretty embarrassed at the AI slop I dumped on my team, thinking the whole time how amazingly productive I was being.
I'm back to writing code by hand now. Of course I use tools to accelerate development, but it's classic stuff like macros and good code completion.
Sure, a LLM can vomit up a form faster than I can type (well, sometimes, the devil is always the details), but it completely falls apart when trying to do something the least bit interesting or novel.