[colechristensen]

Every time I've tried to get LLMs to create something they quickly get to the point where they fail miserably. It can do boilerplate, it can do straightforward things which have been done a billion times, it can come up with 50 ideas 10 of which are decent and not obvious... but it can't go beyond a certain complexity, it can't use mildly obscure libraries, it can't get major versions of libraries straight, it invents API calls that don't exist.

One of the biggest wastes of human talent is corporations hiring people to solve the same problems over and over and over. Every company has to reinvent so many wheels for themselves because sharing code between for profit companies just isn't done outside of the occasional breaking a whole project off into an open source project. This is what LLMs are good at, the very repetitive boilerplate connecting the dots and doing obvious things. Companies are going to have to retool themselves to only really be doing "the hard part", and the rest left to LLMs. In the same way languages will have to change to accommodate the hard part and the easy part.

[Terr_]

There is a disturbing overlap between the things LLMs are most helpful with... and the things that are arguably deficiencies with root-problems to be fixed in the realm of framework/library design, project onboarding, or documentation.

If it's really "boilerplate", nobody should need to get a half-regurgitated approximation out of a statistical model.

Instead there should be a default implementation someone can choose until they need to customize, or a generator-script as part of the project, etc. Sometimes what people want is already right there in the docs, but nobody bothered to look.

[esalman]

> One of the biggest wastes of human talent is corporations hiring people to solve the same problems over and over and over.

It's not the same human who is doing the same thing over and over though.

I have a toddler. He's learning addition and substraction now. I could had him a calculator or LLM and let him skip the entire learning process and do something productive instead. I don't. Because it'll destroy his critical thinking and ability to do anything productive later in life.

[colechristensen]

that's not the level i'm talking about

more "everybody who wants toast is designing their own toaster"

the actual business logic is making up a tiny proportion of work done while everybody spends most of their time plumbing frameworks and libraries together to do substantially similar things