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mgummelt | 1 year ago

You can't compare the accuracy of speech recognition to LLM task completion rates. A nearly-there yet incomplete solution to a Github issue is still valuable to an engineer who knows how to debug it.

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HarHarVeryFunny|1 year ago

Sure, and no doubt people paying for speech recognition 25 years ago were finding uses for it too. It depends on your use case.

A 13% success rate is both wildly impressive and also WAY below the level where I would personally find something like this useful. I can't even see reaching for a tool that I knew would fail 90% of the time, unless I was desperate and out of ideas.

falcor84|1 year ago

I disagree. I think about this a bit as having a developer intern, on whom I can't rely to take much of a workload, and definitely nothing on the critical path, but I could say to them "Take a look at these particular well-defined tasks on the backlog and see which ones you could make some progress on" - I feel there's good value in that.

And the nice thing about an AI here is that I think it will actually find a different subset of these tasks to be easy than a human would.

oytis|1 year ago

> A nearly-there yet incomplete solution to a Github issue is still valuable to an engineer who knows how to debug it.

Not sure if I can agree. There would definitely be a value in looking at what libraries the solution uses, but otherwise it may be easier to write it oneself, especially when the mistakes are not humanlike.