[wilson090]

These studies profoundly miss the mark and were clearly written for engagement/to push a certain view. It's abundantly clear to any developer who has used LLMs that they are a useful tool and have turned the corner in terms of the value they're able to provide vs their limitations.

[cess11]

Not to me. I have also not seen any signs that this technology has had macroeconomic effects, and I don't know of any developers in meatspace that are impressed.

To me it seems like a bunch of religious freaks and psychopaths rolled out a weird cult, in part to plaster over layoffs for tax reasons.

[oytis]

> I don't know of any developers in meatspace that are impressed

I have a theory that there is some anomaly around Bay Area that makes LLMs much better there. Unfortunately the effects seem to be not observable from the outside, it doesn't seem to work on anything open source

[bcrosby95]

My boss was puzzled that despite LLMs writing ~30% of our code, he's not seeing a 30% increase in efficiency. Strange, that is.

[wilson090]

The anti-LLM crowd on HN is far more cultish. I don't know why some developers insist on putting their head in the sand on this.