[AStrangeMorrow]

I have still mixed feelings about LLMs.

If I take the example of code, but that extends to many domains, it can sometimes produce near perfect architecture and implementation if I give it enough details about the technical details and fallpits. Turning a 8h coding job into a 1h review work.

On the other hand, it can be very wrong while acting certain it is right. Just yesterday Claude tried gaslighting me into accepting that the bug I was seeing was coming from a piece of code with already strong guardrails, and it was adamant that the part I was suspecting could in no way cause the issue. Turns out I was right, but I was starting to doubt myself

[slopinthebag]

I think over time we will find better usage patterns for these machines. Even putting a model in a position to gaslight the user seems like a complete failure in the usage model. Not critiquing you at all on this, it's how these models are marketed and what all the tooling is built around. But they are incredibly useful and I think once we figure out how to use them better we can minimise these downsides and make ourselves much more productive without all the failures.

Of course that won't happen until the bubble pops - companies are racing to make themselves indispensable and to completely corner certain markets and to do so they need autonomous agents to replace people.