Comment by mexicocitinluez

Comment by mexicocitinluez a day ago

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> man LLMs are the future

They are. I know a lot of people don't want to admit this, but they are. They're getting better with each release.

> But we're learning it's not economical--this is some of the costliest slop we've ever made.

Huh? How on earth would you know whether my usage of LLM's has been worth it or not?

> Sometimes slop can be useful; maybe you can shape it into something useful

Man, I just spent the last 2 weeks with a CEO who got a Bolt.new subscription to be able to generate some high-level mocks ups for me to utilize that just saved us months of back and forth.

You know what's the best part? Those same mockups can be used to gather user feedback with a functioning UI without me having to spend weeks building it and it ending up wrong anyway.

Sometimes it irks me, but now I've sorta come to embrace devs like you. You're guaranteeing I have a job because you refuse to acknowledge the very obvious thing that's happening.

gilrain 21 hours ago

> You're guaranteeing I have a job because you refuse to acknowledge the very obvious thing that's happening.

I’ll take that bet.

camgunz 16 hours ago

We're not disagreeing. Your best example is throwaway mocks: temporary slop, which these models are good at, but all the costs and externalities are hidden from you. They're not actually economical to use (even if you don't consider training etc as part of the cost, which is ridiculous as they're some of the costliest things humans have ever done).