My friend had never written anything more than an Excel formula a few months ago and now he's using GPT-4 to write very nontrivial Python applications and automate large parts of his job.

I (having 30 years experience as a professional Software Developer^TM) am begging him to teach me his techniques.

Now that you mention it, I met him and we became friends in large part due to his communications abilities.

5 months ago - a friend wrote me a python script and sent it to me...i couldnt get it to work. Used phind.com to explain what to do...it worked out my windows environment variables needed to be changed, told me how to structure a folder schema to place the src script...mindblowing stuff. And i have been using it - when it turn the same friend told me to write a similar script in python myself...it has been amazing to forego stackoverflow/google to get answers. When the GPT-4 model kicks in - my questions are answered with beautiful clarity...whether or not this technology "hallucinates" or not...without a doubt it's empowered me to learn to program. If it's helped me out of 50% of my ruts - i count that as overwhelmingly positive!

I am not going to visit the website you just posted here unless you explain how the mechanism works, otherwise I will assume it's just crappy advertisement in this post.

Phind is just prompt engineering, as is anything sitting on top of anything OpenAI is building right now - if you are doing Q&A then maaaaybe it does some resource augmented generation as well (say, from Stack Overflow or other technical resources)

Phind is often recommended to me by programmers who find it produces "better" results than a naive GPT-4 session, but I don't know that anyone has done any real world testing.

Nobody knows how LLMs work, much less LLMs behind an OpenAI server API, so that's a hard question.

sorry, everyone is losing their job. we have no chances of living in future.

as explained before me phind is a website built ontop of GPT-4 + a free tier (which is what i use) - which uses what they call the Phind Model...though it changes often.

I understand your skepticism (because the internet is fully broken right now/and forum posts are more or less paid for content at this point)

but...its a bit funny you'd like someone who just explained they're a beginning programmer who got into programming because an LLM helped remove insane amounts of friction from the learning process to "explain a mechanism" to them.

LLMs CURRENTLY favor the more curious and open individuals (High on openness in big 5 scale). Half of the population is not open, does not want to try new things, unless it leads to very direct and proven benefit.

However, over time, the overwhelming benefits of using LLMs will be well understood, and these ladder climbers will absolutely master LLMs, no matter their intelligence. People can become experts at taking exams despite how boring and soul sucking that can be, let alone using something way funner and useful like LLMs.