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I think you guys will go through the same kind of divide that SWE went through. There is a number of SWE and adjacent IT professionals that do enjoy the LLM assisted work, I'm one of those.

There's a number of them that absolutely loathe it.

Your point about biology does not sound fair, an ex of mine worked in the field and that is not at all what she did.

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To be fair LLMs can be used in an empowering way to learn, etc. But at that point it feels disingenuous - why not just one shot the problem and get the result more efficiently than just babying it around?

And yeah, fair enough. I guess my bio sample size is limited, but many of the PhD students I've seen in the experimental sciences seem to operate this way a majority of the time. I remember my brain being absolutely fried after 4 hours of thinking about math, only to hear these folks say they pulled a 12 hour shift in the lab. And I'm just like - how? In any case it's all anecdotes from me so feel free to ignore them.

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