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hi_hi | 14 days ago

Damn right I'm impatient. My eye starts twitching when a web page takes more than 2 seconds to load :-)

In the meantime, I've had to continuously hear talk about AI, both in real life (like at the local pub) AND virtually (tv/radio/news/whatever) and how it's going to change the world in unimaginable ways for the last...2/3 years. Billions upon billions of dollars are being spent. The only tangible thing we have to show is software development, and some other fairly niche jobs, have changed _a bit_.

So yeah, excuse my impatience for the bubble to burst, I can stop having to hear about this shit every day, and I can go about my job using the new tools we have been gifted, while still doing all the other jobs that sadly do not benefit in any similar way.

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otabdeveloper4|13 days ago

> The only tangible thing we have to show is software development, and some other fairly niche jobs, have changed _a bit_.

There is zero evidence that LLMs have changed software development efficiency.

We get an earth-shattering developer productivity gamechanger every five years. All of them make wild claims, none of them ever have any data to back those claims up.

LLMs are just another in a long, long list. This too will pass. (Give it five years for the next gamechanger.)