A lot of good stuff here. Especially realising how useful an LLM actually is for coding. It's a tool and like most tools has a purpose and a limit. I don't use a screwdriver to put in nails (well sometimes I do at a pinch, but the results suck) or cut wood in half. Spicy autocomplete is probably a good use case, but even then "use with care" should be employed.

The whole "prompt it correctly" stuff is pn point. People have written books on how to correctly and effectively prompt the LLM. If I need to read a book to learn something, why not just read the book on how to do the thing? Or use the LLM to summarise the book, then at least you're going to get somewhat accurate information. We had someone create an AGENTS.md at work and I read it and it just sounds like a joke "You are expert in this and the human known everything. If unsure ask the human" etc. If the main gain is that I don't need to type so much I might as well use voice dictation.

That is aside the financial, environmental, health, and safety issues and damages that are all bundled in for free. If people just saw it for what it is, instead of glamourising them as the panacea for all their problems.

Don't fall for the scam that is "AI", think. Computers cannot think for you.

I agree. I just wish others in my company did.

It’s hard to be the one not doing it when C Level people are demanding that you do everything through Claude code first and fall back if you can’t get it to work.

Don’t get me wrong, I know that a large part of this is me holding it wrong

I don’t think it is. I think LLMs have hard limits that people refuse to accept.

People comparing LLM ai models to industrialization with machines, do not understand the issue. The issue with LLM is not automation and taking place where people worked before, but it scrapes and steals data and code without respecting its license. It is unethical by principle. Unless the dataset is ethical obtain and respecting licenses. Also building cars in example is something no one can do for themselves (at least not allowed to use in streets), compared to programming who can be done by anyone and shared.

So I do not see the LLM "revolution" is the same as industrialization. These are two different issues that cannot be compared.

Llms do create a lot of slop code thats for sure. Makes me want to get off github.

They. They outsourced it. Did we ever really have a voice in this? Did we have a choice in what they do with the capitol they control when they wish to reshape society around it? We need to commit to anticorporate lifestyles and genuinely reject their products and services at scale. Until that happens we're spending our resources to enrich our enemies who use it against us.

I would mind all those "lesser brain" accusations less if they weren't often used under liberalism as a pretext for slavery and genocide.