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This is so blinkered and egocentric.

Just because LLMs are good at translating English to code, doesn’t imply they are good at many other jobs.

Coding isn’t that hard, it’s just not enjoyable to most people. The enjoyment has always been the barrier to entry.

the grandparent commentor predicts 'that which replaces a sweng can replace anything'. llms sure do replace certain language related tasks, sometimes, when correctly piloted. however the majority of the world do not work language related jobs. perhaps if robotics firms bridge the gap to reality using some novel architecture this prediction could come a bit more true? until then it does seem blinkered to assume a set of weights could build a house.

hard agree on the last statement. programming is language. if you're literate you can code.

Coding isn’t that hard to you.

Coding effectively is hard AND painful for the majority of folks. And I’d venture to guess they don’t want to be responsible for debugging LLM output either. Just like I don’t want to fix a car, or do my own plumbing.

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