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Comment by liampulles | Hacker News Reader

Maybe time for some pair programming?

No.

That would be interesting though. What happens when one programmer attempts to chatgpt in pair programming. It's almost like they're already pair programming, just not with you!

They are welcome to do so, but not on company time. We do not find those tools useful at all, because we are generally hired to write new stuff and ChatGPT or other tools are useless when there are no good examples to steal from (e.g. darker corners of AWS that people don't bother to offer solutions for) or when there is a known bug or there are only partial workarounds available for it.

Don't you want programmers to familiarize themselves now to prepare for the time when it does? Claude 3.5 sonnet is getting close.

1954: "Don't you want power plant operators to familiarise themselves with this tokamak now to prepare for when it actually works?"

(Practical nuclear fusion has 10 years away in 1954, and it's still 10 years away now. I suspect in practice LLMs are in a similar space; everyone seems to be fixated on the near, supposedly inevitable, future where they are actually useful.)

AI and VR follow the same hype cycles. They always leave a trail of wasted money, energy, and resources. Only this time Gen AI is leaving a rolling coal-like trail of bullshit that will take some time to clean up. I am patiently waiting for the VC money to run out.

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