And once AI is not there anymore, you're back on square one.
It only looks effective if you remove learning from the equation.
It's the wrong tool for the job, that's what it is.
It only looks effective if you remove learning from the equation.
It's the wrong tool for the job, that's what it is.
I kind of view this use case as enhanced code linters
I quit my last very good job because I became so fed up with this situation. It was bad enough before the CTO started using LLMs. It was ABSURD after.
(This was a YC company that sold quickly after I quit, at a loss, presumably because they didn't know what else to do)
someone holding a hammer by the head and failing at getting the nail in doesnt mean a hammer is a bad tool for nailing
No part of what I said suggested the tool wasn't capable of being a useful tool.
Do you expect an incoming collapse of modern society?
That's the only case where LLM would be "not there anymore." Even if this current hype train dies completely, there will still businesses providing LLM interference, just far less new models. Thinking LLM would be "not there anymore" is even more delusional than thinking programmer as a job would cease to exist due to LLM.
It's effective on things that would take months/years to learn, if someone could reasonably learn it on their own at all. I tried vibe coding a Java program as if I was pair programming with an AI, and I encountered some very "Java" issues that I would not have even had the opportunity to get experience in unless I was lucky enough to work on a Fortune 500 Java codebase.
AI doesn't work in a waterfall environment. You have to be able to rapidly iterate, sometimes in a matter of hours, without bias and/or emotional attachment.
What do you mean? There is no difference between waterfall or agile in what you do during a few hours.
Throw a big context window model like Gemini at it to document the architecture unless good documentation exists. Then use modify that document to drive development of new or modified code.
Many big waterfall projects already have a process for this - use the AI instead of marginally capable offshore developers.
Are you being ironic?