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How about "lots of people like this thing" where many of those people are credible professionals who I have respected from LONG before they started using LLMs?

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Again, it's not _hugely_ strong evidence. Linus Pauling won _two_ Nobel prizes, was unquestionably brilliant... but that doesn't mean I'm going to start megadosing vitamin C anytime soon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling#Medical_research...).

(See also Newton and alchemy, and the list goes on.)

The experts I respect on this are people who's expertise is in software development, so when they say "this stuff helps me do what I do better and faster" I trust them more than if they said "I've started megadosing vitamin C and it's amazing".

It helps that what they're discovering matches my own personal experience as well.

there are just as many equally-qualified experts who have been consistently giving exactly the opposite feedback/signal, which you never seem to acknowledge or incorporate into your comments

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