Comment by maccard
3 hours ago
> Somehow, the non-deterministic model has built me the deterministic code that I want, very fast, pretty much all the time. A year ago it would get stuck. Now it doesn't, for me at least, and for competent programmers that I know.
I still find the models get stuck or go on _massive_ side quests. Just today, I asked claude to write a hello world C++ program using import std; I interrupted it when It decided I needed a new toolchain installed, and started checking for docker installations. This is super basic stuff, it hadn't even generated a plan, it just started searching for LLVM versions rather than running clang --version.
> If you haven't caught on to the new way of working, well, that's a skill issue...
Honestly, it feels like the emperor has no clothes on this topic, and the crowd defending LLMs to death are way too quick to call it a skill issue.
> Honestly, it feels like the emperor has no clothes on this topic, and the crowd defending LLMs to death are way too quick to call it a skill issue.
I feel it's the other way around. The LLM skeptics are unwilling to admit that these things can get you there faster than you would on your own, in the face of clear evidence.
No. We continue to believe the evidence, which says "these tools suck".