Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ...
by jihadjihad on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @08:44PM
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Another frustration I have with these models is that it is yet another crutch and excuse for turning off your brain. I was tagged on a PR a couple days ago where a coworker had added a GIN index to a column in Postgres, courtesy of GPT-4o, of course.
He couldn't pronounce the name of the extension, apparently not noticing that trgm == trigram, or what that might even be. Copying the output from the LLM and pasting it into a PR didn't result in anything other than him checking off a box, moving a ticket in Jira, and then onto the next thing--not even a pretense of being curious about what any of it all meant. But look at those query times now!
It's been possible for a while to shut off your brain as a programmer and blindly copy-paste from StackOverflow etc., but the level of enablement that LLMs afford is staggering.
He couldn't pronounce the name of the extension, apparently not noticing that trgm == trigram, or what that might even be. Copying the output from the LLM and pasting it into a PR didn't result in anything other than him checking off a box, moving a ticket in Jira, and then onto the next thing--not even a pretense of being curious about what any of it all meant. But look at those query times now!
It's been possible for a while to shut off your brain as a programmer and blindly copy-paste from StackOverflow etc., but the level of enablement that LLMs afford is staggering.