[monkeynotes]

This isn't about if LLMs are useful, it's about how useful can they become. We are trying to understand if there is a path forward to transformative tech, or are we just limited to a very useful tool.

It's a valid conversation after ~3 years of anticipating the world to be disrupted by this tech. So far it has not delivered.

Wikipedia did not change the world either, it's just a great tool that I use all the time

As for software, it performs ok. I give up on it most of the time if I am trying to write a whole application. You have to acquire a new skill, prompt engineering, and feverish iteration. It's a frustrating game of whack-a-mole and I find it quicker to write the code myself and just have the LLM help me with architecture ideas, bug bashing, and it's also quite good at writing tests.

I'd rather know the code intimately so I can more quickly debug it than have an LLM write it and just trust it did it well.

[wenc]

By the way, Wikipedia did change the world. Some of the most important inventions are the ones we don’t notice.