[Mtinie]

> I never have and I never will!

That’s an odd flex to roll with for someone who has long been a member of a community of technology enthusiasts, but you be you.

LLMs are tools, not religions. They don’t need to be elevated to a dogmatic level.

[prawn]

I agree with this. I have a normally inquisitive friend who, in response to his trade being threatened by AI, has decided that it's all a horror and he would rather avoid even reading or trying anything from the AI landscape. Bit like "I'd rather be unemployed and starving than have anything to do with all that."

All of my trades are likewise threatened, but I've found various AI options to be useful augments or interesting toys. Things like having ChatGPT check if a particular game already exists, or analysing cost/effort of lining a shed with gyprock vs ply, or analysing a chicken orchard with steel or timber, or instantly culling lists of extraneous options, or summarising someone's public writings on a particular topic, name ideas in various languages. If you have an experience eye to review suggestions, it's fantastic. Or having CoPilot/similar quickly juicing up a web page - something I could do manually, but would rather save time. Or learning how to build a game in a different language.

[ndespres]

I guess I don’t see it as merely technology about which I might be reasonably enthused. Everything cool becomes bad or harnessed for evil in rather short order these days. The destructive potential of widespread deployment of LLMs seems so obvious that I don’t see why anyone would rush employ it in their work, let alone book a trip to a Meta-hosted hypefest for it.

[stevage]

>I don’t see why anyone would rush employ it in their work, let alone book a trip to a Meta-hosted hypefest for it.

These are very different propositions.

You probably already use various code automation tools in your work. At the lower end, Copilot is exactly that, just a bit smarter.

You write "const [getFoo, set" and it autocompletes "Foo] = useState(". Who wouldn't want that?

It's entirely within your control how far you stray into adopting code that you don't thoroughly understand or haven't thoroughly vetted.

[dgfitz]

I wish QtCreator didn’t require a commercial license for their LLM integration.

Do you have any suggestions for a linux-based, qt-tolerant, LLM-integrated IDE? I’d love to try one.

[mohsen1]

Some of us are still using punch cards and never changed /s