[kevindamm]

It's a power saw, or screw gun, but not a Tunnel Boring Machine. When the task is big enough, it goes a little off the rails. With guidance, and persistence, you can churn out a lot of code with barely more than supervisory effort.

I somewhat agree with both your and GP perspectives. It's getting more hype than it has earned, and the promise that this path leads to AGI, despite 10× sizes of models yielding diminishing returns on performance. But it's not vaporware, it can produce fluent text faster and cheaper than humans, so it doesn't go in the "why are they buying?" bin with NFTs.

The questions getting lost in the middle is "do we need to churn out even more code and trust that it's been reviewed?" and "is using this going to semi-permanently disable most of the knowledge workers?"

If there's even a chance that my executive functions and related mental faculties are degraded by using LLMs then I would rather not. I try it a little and keep a finger on the pulse of the community that are going all-in on it. If it does transform into something that's 99% accurate and with a knob letting me dictate volume of output, I'll put more effort into learning how to hold it. And hopefully by then we'll be able to confirm or refute any of the long-term side effects.