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[–] makotech222@hexbear.net 60 points 11 months ago (28 children)

I hate when people say 'LLMs have legitimate uses but...'. NO! THEY DONT! Its entirely a platform for building scams! It should be burnt to the ground entirely

[–] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

I promise this isn't true. AI is absolutely a scam in the sense that it's overhype as fuck, but LLMs are frequently of practical use to me when doing basically anything technical. It has helped me solve real-life problems that actually materially helps others.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago (6 children)

As a software developer with close to 30 years of experience, I find it continually astonishing when people say LLMs are useful to them for technical stuff. I already spend too much of my life debugging code I didn't write. I don't need to automatically churn out more technical debt to be responsible for!

[–] Rexios@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Idk you probably sound like people did when search engines first started getting popular. If you can’t learn how to get good output from an LLM you might get left behind. I never use LLMs for large chunks of code just snippets and it’s great for that. It’s just like StackOverflow. Don’t blindly copy shit without understanding what’s actually going on. You have fun writing boilerplate code I’m never going back to hand writing that shit.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You sound very insecure, kid.

[–] Rexios@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You sound old. Enjoy 30 more years of writing boilerplate.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

Here's a nickel, kid, buy yourself a language that eliminates boilerplate.

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