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[–] hisao@ani.social 0 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I make it write entire functions for me, one prompt = one small feature or sometimes one or two functions which are part of a feature, or one refactoring. I make manual edits fast and prompt the next step. It easily does things for me like parsing obscure binary formats or threading new piece of state through the whole application to the levels it's needed, or doing massive refactorings. Idk why it works so good for me and so bad for other people, maybe it loves me. I only ever used 4.1 and possibly 4o in free mode in Copilot.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It's a lot of people not understanding the kinds of things it can do vs the things it can't do.

It was like when people tried to search early Google by typing plain language queries ("What is the best restaurant in town?") and getting bad results. The search engine had limited capabilities and understanding language wasn't one of them.

If you ask a LLM to write a function to print the sum of two numbers, it can do that with a high success rate. If you ask it to create a new operating system, it will produce hilariously bad results.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago (4 children)

You can’t blame the user when the marketing claims it’s replacing entire humans.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago

It is replacing entire humans. The thing is, it's replacing the people you should have fired a long time ago

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