I hope these people are properly attributing their work to the IDE/editor they used as well. /s
I do spend an enormous amount of time working on projects with AI assistance. When people imply that my output is any less "worthy" because of that, it gives me pause.
The reality is that there are people using AI in areas they would have no chance of producing much quickly. I understand the sentiment against that kind of situation but one shouldn't assume that's every situation.
This is discussed in the article, and I think the author makes pretty reasonable arguments for why by nature we will not see the reliability of LLM usage improve. They also discuss what I agree as the more effective method of using an LLM is, as a feedback and refinement tool, not a decision maker.
> This is not a limitation that can be overcome by LLMs. Their generative value is in their unreliability. If you turn temperature down to zero, you get a deterministic machine - but you also break every meaningful application I know of in production.
This is not a reasonable argument. Setting the temperature down to zero does NOT give you a deterministic machine. And I have never seen that break any application in production, quite the contrary.
Usually that cloying pattern is reserved for "emotional" contexts to validate the user ("your struggles are real [despite others thinking it's in your head]").
Here it doesn't even make sense, of course the VRAM is real. Is it going to tell me that my keyboard is real next?
I wonder if this was generated with the local model, this seems to be a case where it memorized the style but not the meaning and intent.
As someone constantly nerd-sniped, the difficulty is that our instincts are still being formed about what this current era of AI tools can and cannot do.
So when a blocker or an idea pops up, it's very easy to use that magic-like tool to solve it quickly and then go back to whatever it's you were doing before.
However, if you care about the quality of your output, that won't be a quick detour. It will pile up with the other "quick" tasks you were doing simultaneously and that's how you end up with 5-10 sessions working on totally unrelated projects.
Agreed - I have been checking to verify whether this truly is a Google service or just something that links out to generic Google ToS and Support pages. It looks suspicious.
Phones can read biometric information from passports and identity cards just fine. Why didn't you think of a personal ID document as the first step to prove ID?
I do spend an enormous amount of time working on projects with AI assistance. When people imply that my output is any less "worthy" because of that, it gives me pause.
The reality is that there are people using AI in areas they would have no chance of producing much quickly. I understand the sentiment against that kind of situation but one shouldn't assume that's every situation.
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