[theshrike79]

I didn't say that there aren't people doing cutting edge stuff.

But even John Romero did the boring stuff along with the cool stuff. Andrej Karpathy wrote a ton of boilerplate Python to get his stuff up and running[0].

Or are you claiming that every single line of the nanochat[0] project is peak computer science algorithms no LLM can replicate today?

Take the initial commit tasks/ directory for example[1]. Dude is easily in the top 5 AI scientists in the world and he still spends a good time writing pretty basic string wrangling in Python.

My basic point here is that LLMs automate generating the boilerplate to a crazy degree, letting us spend more time in the bits that aren't boring and are actually challenging and interesting.

[0] https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat [1] https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/tree/master/tasks