• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Nah. Even a prolific person like Peter Theil is doing it because he has a warped sense of reality and thinks he’s stopping the antichrist by pushing technology forward.

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      12 days ago

      He’s not really in the industry though. He’s an investor in it. By “in the industry” I mean the people running the LLM companies or working on the LLMs. I just can’t see someone who actually works with those things thinking that there’s real intellect coming forth from them when even a tech ignoramus like me can spot the obvious signs that these things are fake.

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          11 days ago

          Well that is probably true, but I’m pretty sure his engineers are smart enough to know LLMs have no place in automated anything other than bullshit makers.

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            11 days ago

            I sincerely doubt that is true. Just about every coder is using an LLM in some capacity. And if they’re not, they’re getting left behind. It’s just another tool you can use to make yourself more successful.

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              10 days ago

              Can you find a peer-reviewed study that shows any form of meaningful productivity increase from use of LLMs?

              I can’t. I can only find the opposite. I’d be intrigued to see the positive.

              (Note: peer-reviewed study. Not a bunch of anecdotes from people saying “I TOTALLY VIBE-CODED MYSELF INTO MASTERY!”)