Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 1 week agoExcept LLMs are absolutely terrible at working with a new, poorly documented library. Commonly-used, well-defined libraries? Sure! Working in an obscure language or an obscure framework? Good luck.
LLMs can surface information. It’s perhaps the one place they’re actually useful. They cannot reason in the same way a human programmer can, and all the big tech companies are trying to sell them on that basis.
Lembot_0004@discuss.online 1 week ago
Well, don’t use it with new, poorly documented libraries or libraries. That is a common sense rule: use the tool where it is useful.
Somehow many LLM criticizers just claim that LLMs are shit because they can’t autonomously write code. Yes, they can’t. But they can do many other useful things.