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If you write code today in Python - you focus on the python - but behind the scenes it ends up being machine code. You care about the python. You don't worry about the machine code. Some developers will write in LLM prompts. They won't care about how good the machine code is either. It will suck

Eh, it's a false equivalency. It's more like if they were writing Python but the runtime was a group of 100 people who've known a single programming language for 4 weeks trying to execute your code one line at a time without talking to each other.

Chris Higgins

@ch166.bsky.social

Absolutely - but they will write their 'spec' as prompts, and have it generate code. They won't read the code, or tweak the code. They will tweak the spec, and completely regenerate completely new code. The waste is going to be immense - but they won't see it - and they won't care.

Kristin Davidson {kxd}

@kxd.dev

@technikobold.openresin.org

I can’t wait to see new and interesting bugs generated every new version for things that worked fine in the last generation.

Technikobold Ada

@technikobold.openresin.org

the worst part to me is the known long-term impacts of relying on LLMs. Even if I thought they could boost my productivity, it's not worth eroding my critical thinking and problem solving skills

Technikobold Ada

it's just going to force reliance because people won't know what the hell they're doing anymore without it

Exactly! It's just not worth it for me.

Scarlett Ibach

@sibach.bsky.social

100%!! my company is pushing it hard and nothing i have seen either in my own testing or in any code written makes me feel comfortable. even worse nobody understands the codebase, cannot troubleshoot it, and cannot explain to me simple security related info (they llm it and it's incorrect)

I have yet to see any LLM produce code that I would put my name on, even with editing and revision. I'm not gonna plate a turd and garnish it with fresh parsley and send it to the table with my god damn name on it. No way! & now I got haters because I don't wanna make literal shit!

I swear some of y'all sound like "soon it'll be normal for everyone to make and eat shit!" Okay! Have fun! Just please don't eat shit and then talk in my face!

& y'know, there's legitimately useful and interesting applications for LLMs, but god damn if it hasn't become the erstwhile hammer to every nail. The science is neat, the business is horrifically misleading, exploitative, and dangerous.

Joe Beda

@h.olysh.it

Gotta be honest that I’m having a blast with them. I think I’m often looking for “good enough”. And the domain matters. Doing a CRUD web front end to a simple database? They are really good IME. Doing some novel algorithm work? They kinda suck. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Kristin Davidson {kxd}

@kxd.dev

The only thing I’ve found it useful for so far is a search engine for things my own spelunking has failed at. I still won’t trust it with writing actual code.

Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊

@dacut.bsky.social

19 May

I’ve been having Claude churn out some boilerplate code lately that has turned out well. It is a task of copying snippets that already exist and reassembling them, so nothing too hard. But, yeah, asking it to do something novel means I spend a lot of time fixing vibe code shit.

sawyer

@sawyer-p.me

LLMs produce really bad code, and are complete trash at architecture and design. But, there are niches where they’re genuine magic. Worked recently on some code for file processing where inputs were messy and variation was huge. Using AI to find generalizable heuristics was an enormous time saver.

Sagittarius A*

@sagastar.bsky.social

for document processing work, it seems good. for code...i'm seeing the allure. turn brain off, write prompt, get result. it'll kinda work, and for a lot of usecases that's close enough. ofc ppl aren't thinking too far ahead with what is promised by this becoming a reality, and their role in it.

Sagittarius A*

@sagastar.bsky.social

i absolutely am fucking tired of arguing with claude by proxy, or fifty thousand line claude MRs, and the general slop trend. ai;dr no, i am not going to read your claude conversation. it's wrong, more context doesn't change that.

Sagittarius A*

@sagastar.bsky.social