LLMs are literally solving math problems humans have struggled with for decades.
It took me a while to get through the cognitive dissonance too, but we are all going to have to do it.
LLMs are literally solving math problems humans have struggled with for decades.
It took me a while to get through the cognitive dissonance too, but we are all going to have to do it.
On the other hand also calculators help solve problems people have struggled with for millennia. It also doesn't mean that the end result is better than by hand. It's actually not, and that's the reason why you cannot replace programmers, because you need them to steer the LLMs for a good outcome.
And even the answer to the question, if LLMs make us more productive as programmers long-term is not really clear
If not for LLMs this type of hardening would not be possible for me to justify at a startup, and I would have had to sigh and accept the huge attack surface of systemd.
I am a security engineer and there are unlimited things to harden, so LLMs let us harden a lot more in the same very limited time.
Lets brute force cancer. All for it.
That said, to be clear, I would never give OpenAI or Anthropic money. Their irresponsible behavior is separate from the objective capabilities of the tools, which we should seek sovereign versions of.