Here’s the thing from the skeptic perspective: This statement keeps getting made on a rolling basis. 6 months ago if I wasn’t using the life-changing, newest LLM at the time, I was also doing it wrong and being a luddite.
It creates a never ending treadmill of boy-who-cried-LLM. Why should I believe anything outlined in the article is transformative now when all the same vague claims about productivity increases were being made about the LLMs from 6 months ago which we now all agree are bad?
I don’t really know what would actually unseat this epistemic prior at this point for me.
In six months, I predict the author will again think the LLM products of 6 month ago (now) were actually not very useful and didn’t live up to the hype.
otherwise, yes, you'll continue to be irritated by AI hype, maybe up until the point where our civilization starts going off the rails
Granted I was trying to do this 6 months ago, but maybe a miracle has happened. But I'm the past I had very bad experience with using LLMs for niche things (i.e. things that were never mentioned on stackoverflow)