[dools]

I don't understand how you could compare crypto, which has no utility and no fair value, with AI which is used by hundreds of millions of people every day to achieve real outcomes.

[bigstrat2003]

Crypto bros claim that crypto is super useful, revolutionary tech too. The proof is in the pudding, and AI has yet to show any real utility.

[dools]

> and AI has yet to show any real utility

Ummm ... have you not tried using LLMs for coding work?

[VorpalWay]

Not OP, but I have, and I'm not impressed. Perhaps it would be good if you are doing things in the training data (like churning out yet another bland website). But if you are doing things that are not well represented in publicly available code, or in unusual languages, then LLMs are not great currently.

They are great for finding the right ffmpg command line arguments though, and not having to deal with that mess must count for something.

[simonw]

> But if you are doing things that are not well represented in publicly available code, or in unusual languages, then LLMs are not great currently.

Have you tried since November 2025?

[what]

>have you tried since $date

You guys have been saying that every few months.

[simonw]

And you guys have been consistently replying with that exact same comment.

[ofjcihen]

They did get better around that time but there are some things that they are legitimately bad at for now.

[empty_set35204]

For what it's worth, engineers at proprietary trading firms are finding that they can get substantial productivity boosts by using LLMs and it'd be hard to find a domain that's less represented in the training data.

Does definitely require more steering than if you're churning out slop apps/websites though.