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>>tablet+(OP)
I’d love to see the authors of effusive praise of generative AI like this provide the proof of the unlimited powers of their tools in code. If GAI (or agents, or whatever comes next …) is so effective it should be quite simple to prove that by creating an AI only company and in short order producing huge amounts of serviceable code to do useful things. So far I’ve seen no sign of this, and the best use case seems to be generating text or artwork which fools humans into thinking it has coherent meaning as our minds love to fill gaps and spot patterns even where there are none. It’s also pretty good at reproducing things it has seen with variations - that can be useful.

So far in my experience watching small to medium sized companies try to use it for real work, it has been occasionally useful for exploring apis, odd bits of knowledge etc, but overall wasted more time than it has saved. I see very few signs of progress.

The time has come for llm users to put up or shut up - if it’s so great, stop telling us and show and use the code it generated on its own.

>>grey-a+ba
the greatest proof that it's a useful tool is how much people are using it. Almost everyone is using it. If you're using it then you probably find it useful as well.

>>heathr+fk
a) If “everyone is using it”, show me the numbers. Doing a developer survey to see how many are using it is not hard. Ask a random sample of developers if they ⅰ use LLMs to aid their standard coding or ⅱ completely replace their coding with LLM output.

b) Even if “everyone is using it” it doesn’t mean it is useful. The usage could be adequately explained by e.g. marketing, being forced on them by management/policy, etc. Not everything with high usage is useful. I can e.g. quickly think of chewing gum (which is also used by a lot of developers), or the ANSI standard keyboard (as opposed to the ISO standard keyboard).