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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by e3bc54b2 on Thursday May 29, 2025 @11:12PM (#44132479)
This really grinds my gears. The technology is inherently faulty, but the relentless optimism of its future subtly hiding that by making it the user's mistake instead.

Oh you got a wrong answer? Did you try the new OpenAI v999? Did you prompt it correctly? Its definitely not the model, because it worked for me once last night..

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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by traceroute66 on Friday May 30, 2025 @06:13AM (#44134635)
> it worked for me once last night..

This !

Yeah, it probably "worked for me" because they spent a gazillion hours engaging in what the LLM fanbois call "prompt engineering", but you and I would call "engaging in endless iterative hacky work-arounds until you find a prompt that works".

Unless its something extremely simple, the chances of an LLM giving you a workable answer on the first attempt is microscopic.

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