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by bigstrat2003 4 days ago
Which is weird, because AI being bad at things in my expertise (programming) makes me distrust it 10x harder for things outside my expertise. At this point, unless an LLM can give me a reference that I can follow back to a trustworthy primary source (and unless that source says what the LLM synthesized from it), I automatically discard anything it says. It's simply wrong too frequently for me to do otherwise.
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Which area of programming is it bad at? AFAIK it’s bad at embedded programming, but boring web/crud stuff it is very good at.
I'm exactly the same, but unfortunately I think we're in the minority.

People are absolutely dying to outsource their thinking.

Sadly a lot of times the sources are just LLM generated themselves...