[lolinder]

You tried the very first iteration of an LLM-based chat assistant, were unsatisfied with it because it couldn't match Lisp parentheses, and went on to form an opinion about the value of these tools and implicitly the intelligence of the people who use them. That speaks more to your preconceptions than it does to the state of better tools like Copilot or GPT-4.

You didn't label it (which, btw, is a faux pas), but it's obvious from your replies that this wasn't an Ask HN, it was a Tell HN. You have absolutely no interest in what the rest of us have to say.

Nevertheless, I'll try once more for luck: Basing your opinions about LLMs on your experience with GPT-3.5 is a mistake. If you don't want to use LLMs at all because you have preconceptions, that's fine, but don't pretend that you've sampled LLMs and found them lacking for professional coding when you haven't tried the professional tools.

[chrisjj]

> You tried the very first iteration of an LLM-based chat assistant

Er, V3.5 is "the very first iteration"?

> don't pretend that you've sampled LLMs and found them lacking for professional coding when you haven't tried the professional tools.

I think you misread my post. I didn't mention professional.

And my post was't about a "sample of LLMs". It was about this one in particular.

[lolinder]

> Er, V3.5 is "the very first iteration"?

Yes. ChatGPT-3.5 was the very first LLM-based chat assistant that was announced on Nov 30, 2022 [0]. It hasn't gotten better since then, just more censored and faster.

It followed GPT-1 (which was only interesting to people who were already in the know), GPT-2 (which was neat but widely recognized as pretty useless and again, not something normal people noticed) and GPT-3 (which was cool, but didn't provide a chat interface, it could only complete texts, so it made a decent base for the early versions of Copilot).

[0] "ChatGPT is fine-tuned from a model in the GPT-3.5 series, which finished training in early 2022." https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/

[fragmede]

damn, I wish I could give more than one upvote