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Developers got along better than fine without AI slop ever since Tennis for Two was first created in 1958.
Good point, but that also doesn't disprove ops point. They got along fine, but after the invention of the screw driver you'd be a moron to use your fingers to tighten up screws.
Llms are going to keep getting better and it will eventually be seen as very odd to code without llms support imo. I bet in 10 or so years it will be almost unheard of niche to not use llms for coding.
Nope, LLM improvements have already hit the top of the logistics curve and are rapidly burning more fossil fuels and boiling off more water to get diminishing returns. The experiment failed, they are a tragic waste of resources that have netted no widespread benefit and now the imminent collapse of the incestuous money circle at the top is going to take the global economy down with it.
I would be fine with it all failing and the economy falling and us killing all the rich, could be a good outcome. I just don't think that's correct though, llms are getting better. Maybe not the basic underlying math but people are smart and have continued to find ways to make these systems preform better and better with every new model.
Yeah except every time someone gives hands me a one pager or flyer or other doc they "made" in copilot and have edits make, I have to spend twice as long redesigning the entire thing and typing all the text by hand in actual design software and then making the changes they want. And before you say "prompt engineer it" the reason they keep coming to me for fixes is because prompt "engineering" doesn't fucking work and theyve already lost a few hours trying to make that one change without fucking up the rest of it. I've gotten to the point where is someone wants something designed, I tell them to skip copilot and send me the raw write-ups and I'll make the designs.