• TheFriendlyArtificer@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    My argument is thus:

    LLMs are decent at boilerplate. They’re good at rephrasing things so that they’re easier to understand. I had a student who struggled for months to wrap her head around how pointers work, two hours with GPT and the ability to ask clarifying questions and now she’s rockin’.

    I like being able to plop in a chunk of Python and say, “type annotate this for me and none of your sarcasm this time!”

    But if you’re using an LLM as a problem solver and not as an accelerator, you’re going to lack some of the deep understanding of what happens when your code runs.

    • jherazob@beehaw.org
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      10 months ago

      The thing is that this is NOT what the marketers are selling, they’re not selling this as “Buy access to our service so that your products will be higher quality”, they’re selling this as “this will replace many of your employees”. Which it can’t, it’s very clear by now that it just can’t.