• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It’s worse at all programming tasks except boilerplate, especially with its tendency to inject booby traps. Not knowing how to use the programming language it emits becomes a significant problem.

    Comparing a language model to an idiot is unfair to the idiot.

    A normal search engine works for everything else.

    Any well-defined query I’ve ever made of an LLM has resulted in hilariously bad results, but I suppose I was expecting it to do something that I couldn’t already do better myself.

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      5 months ago

      I’m a systems administrator, not a programmer. Like I said, quick scripts. An LLM could probably parse my comment better than you, evidently.

      Comparing a language model to an idiot is unfair to the idiot.

      Oof… Was this in reply to my bit about better grammar and ESL individuals?

      A normal search engine works for everything else.

      Fuck no. Especially the python visualization point.

      Any well-defined query I’ve ever made of an LLM has resulted in hilariously bad results, but I suppose I was expecting it to do something that I couldn’t already do better myself.

      I suppose you’re just a god among men then. For the rest of us, it’s useful and you’ve been given plenty of good answers to your disingenuous question.