Comment by jrjeksjd8d

Comment by jrjeksjd8d 5 hours ago

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A key thing I noticed in sincere anecdotes about LLM code is that is always seems to be outside of the author's area of expertise.

I work with an infrastructure team that are old school sysadmins, not really into coding. They are now prodigiously churning out apps that "work" for a given task. It is producing a ton of technical debt and slowing down new feature development, but this team doesn't really get it because they don't know enough software engineering to understand.

Likewise the recent example of an LLM "coding a browser" where the result didn't compile and wasn't useful. If you took it at face value you'd think "wow that's a hard task I couldn't do, and an LLM did it alone". In fact they spent a ton of effort on manually herding the LLM only for it to produce something pretty useless.