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>>blueri+(OP)
It is refreshing to see I am not the only person who cannot get LLMs to say anything valuable. I have tried several times, but the cycle "You're right to question this. I actually didn't do anything you asked for. Here is some more garbage!" gets really old really fast.

It makes me wonder whether everyone else is kidding themselves, or if I'm just holding it wrong.

>>danlit+ag
I think it's starting to change.

I'm an AI sceptic (and generally disregard most AI announcements). I don't think it's going to replace SWE at all.

I've been chunking the same questions both to Gemini and GPT and I'd say about until ~8 months ago they were both as bad as each other and basically useless.

However, recently Gemini has gotten noticeable better and has never hallucinated.

I don't let it write any code for me. Instead I treat Gemini as a 10+ YoE on {{subject}}.

Working as platform engineer, my subjects are broad so it's very useful to have a rubber duck ready to go on almost any topic.

I don't use copilot or any other AI. So I can't compare it to those.

>>1a527d+Si
YoE means "Years of Experience", for anyone interested. I had to look it up, and perhaps I can save a different me some time.