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I worked as a software engineer.
AI is supposed to replace programmers, or at least help you write code.

But I never really wrote a lot of code in the first place??
I looked up libraries that do what I need and then wrote a bit of code in-between to link our API or GUI to the right functions of the selected library.

And these libraries were tested, functional and most of all consistent and reliable.

Now what do you want me to do? Ask an non-deterministic LLM to implement the code from scratch every time I need it in my project?
That doesn't makes sense at all.

That's like building a car and every day you ask somebody else to make you a new wheel. And every wheel will be slightly different than the previous. So your car will drive like shit.

Instead, why not just ask a reputable wheel manufacturer to make you 4 wheels? You know they will work. And in the case of programming, people are literally giving away good, reliable wheels for free! (free libraries and APIs)

Why use LLMs at all?

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

i mean it still could lead to something...

not by the current big actors, but sometime in the future hopefully.

[–] homes@piefed.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I’m sure that’s true, but probably something quite different than what we are being promised and much further down the road. Like how VR was hyped a lot in the early 90s, but we really didn’t get anything like that until quite recently, and it’s not quite the same.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

yeah, the tech just wasn't there for vr. just like how llms aren't the be all end all of generative machine learning models. agents are getting close, but with the tech we currently have there is no way it could reach the promised agi status.

i actually protested to my professor about this when we were working with neural networks in 2014. were were doing handwriting recognition and i told him "this isn't ai". he shot back "oh really? then write me a paper on why" and i couldn't do it because while i could describe what ai is not, i could not define what it actually is. that feels like the main question we want to be solving for, rather than "how to get statistical text generators to seem clever".