[benreesman]

Sonnet-3.5 seems a lot better at backing correct fixes out of TypeScript compiler errors than Python runtime errors. Which fair enough, I'm better at that too.

Of the two or three languages these things have enough training data on to hit "above average StackOverflow answer on demand", I'm being forced to re-evaluate my sometimes strident forecasts that LLM coding was mostly hype. I'm not quite ready to eat crow yet, but I've made sure there's clean silverware in case I need to (and I will admit it if I was conclusively full of shit).

It's still wildly over-stated and it's still a delicate game to come out ahead on the correct code after the hallucination rabbit holes have been deducted, but in certain verticals LLMs have become my first stop.

In the "strictly better than the sort of people who do this" regime is clickbait tech blog posts. I now almost always have them write me some fairly generic rant with a catchy title when I'm in the mood to read the sort of shit that gets frontpage because title. I don't post them because I'm not a spammer, but for my own private amusement? Beats the hell out of basically any low-detail technology essay. In a macabre way that's to me the more interesting commentary on theory of mind.

[ynniv]

Don't take my word for it, but this crow is delicious.