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Given my own experiences with LLMs, I'm convinced about half the comments on any given thread are just bots told to hype
That's about right, my estimate is 50% to 70% depending on case. On the other hand, isn't it clear that people will be more productive with whatever agent they have experience with? That's my reason for going with open source agents and the attempts of Big LLM to kill that workflow only reaffirm my decision.
What are you using currently?