300/5290 functions decompiled and analyzed in less than three hours off of a huge codebase. By next weekend, a binary that had lost source code will have tests running on a platform it wasn't designed for.
I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
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#112I hope that realization happens before "vibe coding" is accepted as standard practice by software teams (especially when you consider the poor quality of software before the LLM era). If not, it's only a matter of time before we refer to the internet as "something we used to enjoy."
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#113I get so confused on this. I play around, test, and mess with LLMs all the time and they are miraculous. Just amazing, doing things we dreamed about for decades. I mean, I can ask for obscure things with subtle nuance where I misspell words and mess up my question and it figures it out. It talks to me like a person. It generates really cool images. It helps me write code. And just tons of other stuff that astounds me…
A lot of software developers have an initial bad experience and assume it's terrible and give up on it. I feel bad for people who haven't yet experienced how useful these models are for programming. Some also just prefer manually entering everything. Those people I will never understand.
That's okay.
It's not my responsibility to convince or convert them.
I prefer to just let them be and not engage.
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#114I get so confused on this. I play around, test, and mess with LLMs all the time and they are miraculous. Just amazing, doing things we dreamed about for decades. I mean, I can ask for obscure things with subtle nuance where I misspell words and mess up my question and it figures it out. It talks to me like a person. It generates really cool images. It helps me write code. And just tons of other stuff that astounds me…
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#115I get so confused on this. I play around, test, and mess with LLMs all the time and they are miraculous. Just amazing, doing things we dreamed about for decades. I mean, I can ask for obscure things with subtle nuance where I misspell words and mess up my question and it figures it out. It talks to me like a person. It generates really cool images. It helps me write code. And just tons of other stuff that astounds me…
A lot of software developers have an initial bad experience and assume it's terrible and give up on it. I feel bad for people who haven't yet experienced how useful these models are for programming. Some also just prefer manually entering everything. Those people I will never understand.
As the parent says, while far from perfect, they're an incredible aid in so many areas. When used well, they help you produce not just faster but also better results. The only trick really is that you need to treat it as a (very knowledgeable but overconfident) collaborator rather than an oracle.
Re: I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of software developers have an initial bad experience and assume it's terrible and give up on it. I feel bad for people who haven't yet experienced how useful these models are for programming. Some also just prefer manually entering everything. Those people I will never understand.
It doesn't matter how useful it is, there will always be naysayers who can't see it, or who refuse to see it. That's okay. It's not my responsibility to convince or convert them. I prefer to just let them be and not engage.
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#117I get so confused on this. I play around, test, and mess with LLMs all the time and they are miraculous. Just amazing, doing things we dreamed about for decades. I mean, I can ask for obscure things with subtle nuance where I misspell words and mess up my question and it figures it out. It talks to me like a person. It generates really cool images. It helps me write code. And just tons of other stuff that astounds me…
But I mirror the confusion why people are still bullish on it. The current valuation for it is because the market thinks that it's able to write code like a senior engineer and have AGI, because that's how they're marketed by the LLM providers.
I'm not even certain if they'll be ubiquitous after the venture capital investments are gone and the service needs to actually be priced without losing money, because they're (at least currently) mostly pretty expensive to run.
Re: I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of software developers have an initial bad experience and assume it's terrible and give up on it. I feel bad for people who haven't yet experienced how useful these models are for programming. Some also just prefer manually entering everything. Those people I will never understand.
It doesn't matter how useful it is, there will always be naysayers who can't see it, or who refuse to see it. That's okay. It's not my responsibility to convince or convert them. I prefer to just let them be and not engage.
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#119Re: I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
#120I get so confused on this. I play around, test, and mess with LLMs all the time and they are miraculous. Just amazing, doing things we dreamed about for decades. I mean, I can ask for obscure things with subtle nuance where I misspell words and mess up my question and it figures it out. It talks to me like a person. It generates really cool images. It helps me write code. And just tons of other stuff that astounds me…
It would be fine if it were sold that way, but there is so much hype. We're told that it's going to replace all of us and put us all out our jobs. They set the expectations so high. Like remember OpenAI showing a video of it doing your taxes for you? Predictions that super-intelligent AI is going to radically transform society faster than we can keep up? I think that's where most of the backlash is coming from.