[kevmo314]

Yeah I'm in the holding it wrong camp too. I really want LLMs to work, but every time I spend effort trying to get it to do something I end up with subtle errors or a conclusion that isn't actually correct despite looking correct.

Most people tell me I'm just not that good at prompting, which is probably true. But if I'm learning how to prompt, that's basically coding with more steps. At that point it's faster for me to write the code directly.

The one area where it actually has been successful is (unsurprisingly) translating code from one language to another. That's been a great help.

[kaoD]

I have never been told I'm bad at prompting, but people swear LLMs are so useful to them I ended up thinking I must be bad at prompting.

Then I decided to take on offers to help me with a couple problems I had and, surprise, LLMs were indeed useless even when being piloted by people that swear by them, in the pilot's area of expertise!

I just suspect we're indeed not bad at prompting but instead have different kinds of problems that LLMs are just not (yet?) good at.

I tend to reach for LLMs when I'm (1) lazy or (2) stuck. They never help with (2) so it must mean I'm still as smart as them (yay!) They beat me at (1) though. Being indefatigable works in their favor.