My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/konwinski-prize/

Currently, the #1 spot sits at a score of 0.09, not 0.9. A far cry from being useful. I know that open source models are not as good as closed source, but still, we're a long way from LLMs being good for code on their own.

And that supports OP's point - these tools aren't AGI, they produce trash that needs evaluation, but they're still useful.

I do not have unlimited funds to plug in some token and burn a bunch of money when writing code.

I am gpu poor. I'm lucky that 8gb vram can run the smallest models. But the output is so poor that I lose out to anyone using a hosted service.

If anything this article shows that building great programs is less democratized than it once was.

oh finally someone else who didn't enter programming because, as 7-10 year old child, they were into SOLVING PRACTICAL PROBLEMS FOR PEOPLE.

> But the last fucking thing I want to do is delegate all the code writing to someone or something else

Thank God there is at least one other person that understands that the ratio between creative and reactive work is crucial for wellbeing at the job.

For crying out loud.

> but if I ever get to the point that I feel like I spend my entire day in virtual meetings with AI agents, then I'm changing careers

so am I.

> but at least I guess I got a couple of good decades out of it

Thanks for this perspective. Yes, at least we've got our memories, and the code locations and commits we recall from memory, from a distance of 10 or more years.

>. If this is what the job turns into, I'll have to find something else to do with my remaining years

Me too.