[MrScruff]

Is your argument that there is no imaginable situation where someone who was competent at software development could find use for a semi-automated tool for writing software?

That would imply that either the person in question has infinite time, or has access to all software that could ever be of utility to them, which seems unlikely.

[stephenr]

There's a reason I call it spicy autocomplete.

[MrScruff]

Which is what?

[stephenr]

.... that an IDE providing a suggestion about what comes next as you type is not new, and the entire basis of how an LLM works is "what word probably comes next".

I'd have thought someone who's so enamoured with the tech would have at least a basic understanding of how it works.

[MrScruff]

Indeed. To be honest, I think everyone on HN is aware of how LLMs work at this point, it’s not actually adding a great deal to the discussion to keep going on about autocomplete or ‘stochastic parrots’.

[ewild]

At this point if someone calls it auto complete they can be written off as a Luddite with nothing valuable to say. The irony being they themselves are being a stochastic parrot by parroting the jargon other people say about llms.