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I certainly wouldn't use a compiler that "screws up" 1% of the time; that's the perfect amount where it's extremely common where everything I use it for will have major issues but also so laborious to find amongst the 99% of correct output that I might as well not use it in the first place.

Which is ironically, the exact case those of us who don't find LLM-assisted coding "worth it" make.

How about a human coworker who screws up 1% of the time? Doesn’t sound so bad in that light. It’s the nature of being human.

Good code review is the solution but if it’s faster to do it yourself, that’s fine too.

You're not any better my friend. Name calling and straw man fallacies make a far worse point, if any, that that commenter made.

If they only screwed up 1% of the time, they'd be as good as the LinkedIn hype men want you to believe. They're far far worse then that in reality

Where's the evidence of the productivity, or does it just feel productive? https://minutes.substack.com/p/tool-shaped-objects

Please don't reply to a bad comment with another bad comment.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

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LLMs screw up far more than 1% of the time. They screw up routinely, far more than a professionally trained human would, and in ways that would have said human declared mentally ill.

> enabling programmers around the world to be far more productive

I know a lot of us feel this way, but why isn't there more evidence of it than our feelings? Where's the explosion of FOSS projects and businesses? And why do studies keep coming out showing decreased productivity? Why aren't there oodles of studies showing increases of productivity?

I like kicking back and letting claude do my job but I've yet to see evidence of this increased productivity. Objectively speaking, "I" seem to be "writing" the same amount of code as I was before, just with less cognitive effort.

It's like everyone forgot that "lines of code" as a productivity metric was a running joke for a decade-plus. The real bottleneck in our work isn't producing boilerplate code, it's producing more or less the right kind of code for the problem at hand, and LLMs, having no real underlying ability to reason, are just not very good at it.

I haven’t done web development since 2002 except for some copy and paste work. My development is purely back end and AWS IAC. I have completely vibe coded three internal web admin sites that had about 10 pages of functionality and authentication with Amazon Cognito. I didn’t look at a line of code. I just told it what I wanted and the changes based on the UX I wanted

not questioning the cost of adopting new tech is so foolish it boggles my mind that so many nominally intelligent people just close their eyes and take a bite without wondering whether that's really fudge on their sundae or something fecal.

Pure ideology, as a certain sniffing slav would say

FTFY: “There’s this incredible new technology that allows evil megacorporations to get richer and control the world while destroying the beauty of the Web.”

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