It has to be pure ignorance.
I only have used my works stupid llm tool a few times (hey, I have to give it a chance and actually try it before I form opinions)
Holy shit it’s bad. Every single time I use it I waste hours. Even simple tasks, it gets details wrong. I correct it constantly. Then I come back a couple months later, open the same module to do the same task, it gets it wrong again.
These aren’t even tools. They’re just shit. An idiot intern is better.
Its so angering people think this trash is good. Get ready for a lot of buildings and bridges to collapse because of young engineers trusting a slop machine to be accurate on details. We will look back on this as the worst era in computing.
My experience is that it can work reasonabky well, but you have to waste absurd amount of tokens and have the 1m token context window.
I only do gamedev, which means a little bit more simple scriots, but it could handle even more involved systems.
If i force it to first document and explain the wholw architecture and data flow.
Did it help? Yes, but it still did take only a slightly faster. I could do it in a day more, probably.
It also cost like 50$ in tokens, in today’s prices - where every AI company is loosing trillions of money, so the costs will get a lot worse. And if I tried to conserve tokens, it’s shit. You have to feed it 10$ of data to be useful.
Add to that the fact that it also causes skill attrition, so once the expensive-cost future arrives, you probsbly won’t be able to afford it, and good luck getting your skills back after that.
Our company wants us to use it, and the average token consumption is like 100$ per day in consumer prices. How is that even considered for such a minor gain?
So, I’ll pass.
There’s enough people who drink the koolaid.
I helped this one as guy use an LLM to migrate his test suite to java21. It did help him incorporate some new language features but I don’t see how it made up for my time sitting with him
…… yet to management he saved 20% time. They trust that number despite no actual measurement, and hold it up as efficiency we all need to find.
But certainly if a 20% efficiency gain were real, that would be well worth $100
Especially once they kill the “old net” and you won’t be able to browse anything to learn skills at all.
kagi is the only way i can stay sane on web 3.0.