| > LLMs are insanely helpful if you use them with their limitations in mind. This depends on your use case. I can honestly tell that all the chat bot AIs don't "get" my kind of thinking about mathematics and programming. Since some friend who is graduate student in computer science did not believe in my judgement, I verbally presented him some test prompts for programming task where I wanted the AI to help me (these are not the most representative ones for my kind of thinking, but are prompts for which it is rather easy to decide whether the AI is helpful or not). He had to agree from the description alone that the AIs will have difficulties with these task, despite the fact that these are common, and very well-defined programming problems. He opined that these tasks are simply too complex for the existing AIs, and suggested that if I split these tasks into much smaller subtasks, the AI might be helpful. Let me put it this way: I personally doubt that if I stated the subtasks in a way in which I would organize the respective programs, the AI would be of help. :-) What was just important for me was to able to convince the my counterpart that whether AIs are helpful or not for programming depends a lot on your kind of thinking about programming and your programming style. :-) |