Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoThing is both statements can be true.
Used appropriately and in the right context, LLMs can accelerate some select work.
But the hype level is ‘human replacement is here (or imminent, depending on if the company thinks the audience is willing to believe yet or not)’. Recently Anthropic suggested someone could just type ‘make a slack clone’ and it’ll all be done and perfect.
Heh. That’s a fun chart. If that’s programming aptitude, I scored 80 on that part of the broad spectrum aptitude test I got a sneak-peek chance to do several parts of. Well now I know why I’m so easily in agreement with “senior coders”, if it is programming aptitude quotient. If it’s just iq, … pulls hood up to block the glare.
Daunting that there may be a middling bias getting apparent advantages. Evolution may not serve us well like that.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Oddly enough, my grasp of coding is probably the same as the guy in the middle but I still know that LLM generated code is garbage.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I actually considered putting the same text on all 3, but we gotta put the idiots that think it’s great somewhere!
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Yeah, there’s definitely morons out there who never bothered to even read about the theory of good code design.
theterrasque@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
I guess I’m one of the morons then, but what do I know. I’ve only been coding since the 90s
theterrasque@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
That’s kinda wrong though. I’ve seen llm’s write pretty good code, in some cases even doing something clever I hadn’t thought of.
You should treat it as any junior though, and read the code changes and give feedback if needed.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
All the best garbage to learn from, to debug, debug, debug, sharpening those skills.