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by josefritzishere 19 days ago
All AI sucks, it's not a Google problem.
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Disagree and if you actively use it in your workflow well you will realize its a major competitive edge.

Nobody is going to hold you back from falling behind tho and I'm not here to convince you otherwise.

>Disagree and if you actively use it in your workflow well you will realize its a major competitive edge.

Depends on your line of work. I regularly try to incorporate it with mine and find myself telling it that it's wrong more often than not. I'm yet to be convinced that double-checking and correcting an LLM's work has saved me any more time than wading through garbage SEO-filled results to find what I need.

>Nobody is going to hold you back from falling behind tho and I'm not here to convince you otherwise.

The cockiness/hubris is real.

If you are not getting value from LLM today that means whatever you are doing doesn't have the value you perceive it to have.
Let's not have a conversation, ask questions and understand nuance, let's just flippantly assert judgement via absolutes!
so you won't explain ?
Willing to bet my career that how we use LLMs in 2027 will look nothing like how we use them in 2026 because of harness churn. My take is: focus on providing value to your company with the tools available today that appear least likely to churn out of existence tomorrow. The more specific and bespoke your harness, the likelier it is it will become obsolete very soon (I.e. the next frontier model release).
Indeed.

It's promising technology, but the tools are far from mature yet.

And as they do mature, the ramp up will decrease and their won't be any particular benefit to being an early adopter. For reasonably bright people, there's essentially no penalty to "missing out" for a while.

As often, the FOMO-afflicted are churning on stuff that just won't matter. Which is fine if they enjoy it, but isn't something the rest of us need to fret over.

100%. Imagine some talented engineer waking up from a 12 month coma. Do we honestly believe they’ll be permanently “behind” in the workforce because he wasn’t churning through LLM harnesses those past 12 months? What about 22 year old college graduates entering the workforce?

Keep abreast, don’t lose sleep, don’t sacrifice work-life balance. Help each other, especially your coworkers. The current craze seems to have created stack ranking monsters out of the whole industry.

Most of the harness related work I've done has been writing better documentation in the repository, and importing existing external documents. This type of stuff is gonna be useful no matter what, and also helps human engineers!

I wish we could convince folks to write docs for human consumption, but docs are docs....

You have no skin in the game but expect us to take your word for it.
Competitive edge with who? Your coworkers? Your boss’ efficiency demands?
With everybody else that uses AI silently and successfully.
And what is the competition? What is the end game? Fastest LLM code golfer? What about those getting in your way due to unsuccessful LLM use? What about the successful loud ones, who do they compete with if not you?