jennyholzer3

I'm not trolling, this is my sincere opinion

I think LLM addicts are particularly susceptible to flattery.

Can they do it without LLMs?

If they can't, did they really do it in the first place?

Are they actually literate in the programming languages they're using?

not at all, I think these are valuable tools

would you agree that LLMs make developer stupider?

edit: answer my question

"our investor class is really too dumb to handle the money we've stuck in a box called "the world's retirement funds" and handed to them."

all it took was a chatbot that says "you're a genius"

I think you'd have to be stupid to expect productivity gains from your software developers using LLMs

edit: a lot of articles like this have been popping up recently to say "LLMs aren't as good as we hyped them up to be, but they still increase developer productivity by 10-15%".

I think that is a big lie.

I do not think LLMs have been shown to increase developer productivity in any capacity.

Frankly, I think LLMs drastically degrade developer performance.

LLMs make people stupider.

don't use LLMs for Godot game programming.

edit: Major engine changes have occurred after the models were trained, so you will often be given code that refers to nonexistent constants and functions and which is not aware of useful new features.

The system prompt may vary but:

"It's trained to make you think it's amazing and magical and therefore you think it's amazing and magical."

is the dark pattern underlying the entire LLM hype cycle IMO.

I don't mean to be inflammatory but I am not at all convinced that LLMs will be useful for software development in 5 years!

I think LLMs are very well marketed but I don't think they're very good at writing code and I don't think they've gotten better at it!

give them better incentives

I don't know about all this AI stuff.

How are LLMs going to stay on top of new design concepts, new languages, really anything new?

Can LLMs be trained to operate "fluently" with regards to a genuinely new concept?

I think LLMs are good for writing certain types of "bad code", i.e. if you're learning a new language or trying to quickly create a prototype.

However to me it seems like a security risk to try to write "good code" with an LLM.

The important question is: Who is planning to buy the datacenters and their hardware when these ludicrously overvalued AI companies are forced to shut doors?