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Re:As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs o... by AlexCoventry on Monday May 05, 2025 @02:45PM (#43898122)
He does partially address this elsewhere in the blog post. It seems that he's mostly concerned about surprise costs:

> On paper, coding agents should be able to address my complaints with LLM-generated code reliability since it inherently double-checks itself and it’s able to incorporate the context of an entire code project. However, I have also heard the horror stories of people spending hundreds of dollars by accident and not get anything that solves their coding problems. There’s a fine line between experimenting with code generation and gambling with code generation.

Re:As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs o... by minimaxir on Monday May 05, 2025 @02:51PM (#43898184)
Less surprise costs, more wasting money and not getting proportionate value out of it.