In the case of a senior engineer then they wouldn’t need to worry about the hallucination rate. The LLM is a lot faster than them and they can do other tasks while it’s being generated and then review the outputs. If it’s trivial you’ve saved time, if not, you can pull up that documentation, and reason and step through the problem with the LLM. If you actually know what you’re talking about you can see when it slips up and correct it.
And that hallucination rate is rapidly dropping. We’ve jumped from about 40% accuracy to 90% over the past ~6mo alone (aider polygot coding benchmark) - at about 1/10th the cost (iirc).
Feyd@programming.dev 1 day ago
Insane that just writing the code isn’t even an option in your mind
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
That isn’t the discussion at hand. Insane you don’t realise that.
expr@programming.dev 11 hours ago
It is, actually. The entire point of what I was saying is that you have all these engineers now that reflexively jump straight to their LLM for anything and everything. Using their brains to simply write some code themselves doesn’t even occur to them as an something they should do. Much like you do, by the sounds of it.
Feyd@programming.dev 19 hours ago
🤣