Interesting how he mentions LLMs have a 50% error rate, and predicts how no one will pay for a tool with such a poor rate.

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Looks like LLM companies are not only trying to push adoption of their stuff everywhere - wether that might make sense or not - but also are trolling communities which are putting or want to put some sensible limits on that (see discussions around GNOME or KDE).

The fact that a lot of companies are taking crazy pills does not mean that FOSS projects have to do the same.

And the idea that using LLMs for eveything is mandatory is increasingly getting a religigous note. It is absolutely correct to ake a step back - like GKH did here - and access what is helpful or not.

And it is absolutely necessary that communities put limits and boundaries on things that are not helpful.

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    In case you haven't realized that is what my first (completely irrelevant) comment exactly advocates. It may be useful with a human in the loop for well-defined tasks. Whether or not it ends up being a boon or a curse on devs remains to be seen. If you have to just sieve through 10 irrelevant bugs to find one very critical one that might be worth it (especially if the LLM can order it by priority reasonably well), could even be a nice training exercise for a more junior coder to get acquainted with the code base. Whether or not these benefits are worth the damage it is causing (nature and society wise) is of course a whole another issue.

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