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by germandiago 65 days ago
> First - I'm doubting your assumptions about "What they will do is to find all the solutions someone did and mix and match".

I never, ever got from a LLM a solution that either I could have never thought of or it was available almost verbatim in internet (take this last one with a grain of salt, we know how they can combine and fake it, but essentially, solutions looking like templates from existing things, often hallucinating things that do not exist or cannot be done, inventing parameter names for APIs that do not exist, etc).

When I give some extra thought to a problem (20 years almost in software business) I think solutions that I come up with are often simpler, less convoluted and when I analyze LLMs they give you a lot of extra code that is not even needed, as if they were doing guessing even if you ask them something more narrow. Well, guessing is what they are doing actually, via interpolation.

This makes them useful for "bulky", run fast, first approach problems but the cost later is on you: maintenance, understanding, modifying, etc.