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> Much Much more productive world by just knuckling down and learning how to do the work. The fact everyone that say they've become more productive with LLMs won't say how exactly. I can talk about how VIM have make it more enjoyable to edit code (keybinding and motions), how Emacs is a good environment around text tooling (lisp machine), how I use technical books to further my learning (so many great books out here)…
Ever seen someone try and search something on Google and they are just AWFUL at it? They can never find what they're looking for and then you try and can pull it up in a single search? That's what it is like watching some people try to use LLM's. Learning how to prompt an LLM is as much a learned skill as much as learning how to phrase internet searches is a learned skill. And as much as people decried that "searchin…
An LLM is a word (token?) generator which can be amazingly consistent according to its model. But rarely is my end goal to generate text. It's either to do something, to understand something, or to communicate. For the first, there are guides (books, manuals, ...), for the second, there are explanations (again books, manuals,...), and the third is just using language to communicate what's on my mind.
That's the same thing with search engines. I use them to look for something. What I need first is a description of that something, not how to do the "looking for". Then once you know what you want to find, it's easier to use the tool to find it.
If your end goal can be achieved with LLMs, be my guest to use them. But, I'm wary of people taking them at face value and then pushing the workload unto everyone else (like developers using electron).