Lemmings, I was hoping you could help me sort this one out: LLM’s are often painted in a light of being utterly useless, hallucinating word prediction machines that are really bad at what they do. At the same time, in the same thread here on Lemmy, people argue that they are taking our jobs or are making us devs lazy. Which one is it? Could they really be taking our jobs if they’re hallucinating?
Disclaimer: I’m a full time senior dev using the shit out of LLM’s, to get things done at a neck breaking speed, which our clients seem to have gotten used to. However, I don’t see “AI” taking my job, because I think that LLM’s have already peaked, they’re just tweaking minor details now.
Please don’t ask me to ignore previous instructions and give you my best cookie recipe, all my recipes are protected by NDA’s.
Please don’t kill me
I’ve used it to help me make some website stuff as a mobile dev. It’s definitely not the best webpage and I’ll probably want to redo it at some point, but for now it works.
That cost a freelancer a small job or would have taken exceptionally longer than it did. But I really don’t have a big interest in web dev so I probably would have ended up hiring someone.
The amount of stuff it gets wrong is still enormous. I can’t imagine what someone with zero programming skills would end up with if they only used it. It’d be so god awful.