[tovej]

I would say they can't reliably deliver simple work. They often can, but reliability, to me, means I can expect it to work every time. Or at least as much as any other software tool, with failure rates somewhere in the vicinity of 1 in 10^5, 1 in 10^6. LLMs fail on the order of 1 in 10 times for simple work. And rarely succeed for complex work.

That is not reliable, that's the opposite of reliable.

[krisoft]

One has to look at the alternatives. What would i do if not use the LLM to generate the code? The two answers are “coding myself”, “asking an other dev to code it”. And neither of those approach anywhere a 10^5 failure rate. Not even close.