Ok, that's the "you're holding it wrong" thing.
When I start to stray into even moderately complex work, LLMs become pretty useless quick. Tell me your setup, and I will give a quick sample task that it will fail at. Stop the fanboyism please
When I start to stray into even moderately complex work, LLMs become pretty useless quick. Tell me your setup, and I will give a quick sample task that it will fail at. Stop the fanboyism please
I said people are saying the models are PhD level intelligent not that you need to be. I get a ton of value from them and I don't have a PhD.
Well, that's the point. As long as they are using a recent-ish model it really doesn't matter. Not that there are no differences in performances between models, it's that there is no model today that even comes close not requiring extensive hand-holding to accomplish real-world software engineering of even slightly moderate complexity.
Case in point: I have been frustrated that most markdown viewers don't do automatic indentation of section levels. I thought, this is a perfect test of coding assistants: the problem and solution is straightforward conceptually, and I don't even care about the platform and architecture used to accomplish it.
I've asked all the major models to implement a simple markdown viewer that could do automatic indentation, and they all fall flat. Some even give me code that will not run; of the rest, none has provided code that basically does the thing I've asked for.
The LLMs advance and so does the quality. What e.g. OpenAIs o3 can do is so much better than what GPT 3.5 can do.
I'm convinced every developer who does not stay up to date with AI coding tools and know how to use them will become obsolete sooner or later.