Dunno why the downvotes. I think it’s useful for menial stuff like “create a json list of every book of the Bible with a number for the book and a true or false if it’s old or new testament” which it can do in seconds. Or to quickly create a template.
LLMs are actually really good at a handful of specific tasks, like autocomplete. The problem arises when people think that they’re on the path to AGI and treat them like they know things.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nah mate, its shit for autocomplete. Before LLMs autocomplete was better with a simple dictionary weighted to use percentage.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I’ve found it better than the weighted dictionary for prose, and way better for code. Code autocompletion was always really limited, but now every couple dozen lines it suggests exactly what I was going to type anyway. Never on anything particularly clever, mind you, but it saves some tedium.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It also sometimes halucinates entire libraries and documentation and is single handedly responsible for massive sector wide average vulnerabilities increase.
Did you make sure to subtract all of that negative value before you even considered it as “good”?
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Oh, it’s fucking horrible at writing entire codebases. I’m talking about specifically tab completion. You still have to read what it’s suggesting, just like with IntelliSense and other pre-LLM autocomplete tools, but it sometimes finishes your thoughts and saves you some typing.
toddestan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Just because a hammer makes for a lousy screwdriver doesn’t mean it’s not a good hammer. To me, AI just another tool. Like any other tool, there’s things it is good at and there are things it is bad at. I’ve also found it can be pretty good as a code completion engine. Not perfect, but there’s plenty of boilerplate stuff and repetitive things where it can figure out the pattern and I can bang out the lines of code pretty quickly with the AI’s help. On the other hand, there’s times it’s nearly useless and I switch back to the keyword completion engine as it’s the better tool for those situations.