Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking

Re:Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking by ghuntley on Friday July 04, 2025 @06:48PM (#44468579)

Canva has seen a 30% productivity uplift - https://fortune.com/2025/06/25/canva-cto-encourages-all-5000...

AI is the new uplift. Embrace and adapt, as a rift is forming (see my talk at https://ghuntley.com/six-month-recap/), in what employers seek in terms of skills from employees.

I'm happy to answer any questions folks may have. Currently AFK [2] vibecoding a brand new programming language [1].

[1] https://x.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/1940964118565212606 [2] https://youtu.be/e7i4JEi_8sk?t=29722

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Re:Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking by CuriouslyC on Friday July 04, 2025 @07:23PM (#44468807)

And that's with 50% adoption and probably a broad distribution of tool use skill.

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Re:Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking by ofjcihen on Friday July 04, 2025 @11:40PM (#44469941)

There’s something hilariously Portlandia about making outlandish claims with complete confidence and then plugging your own talk.

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Re:Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking by ghuntley on Saturday July 05, 2025 @04:17AM (#44471012)

There’s citations to the facts in the links.

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Re:Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking by eviks on Saturday July 05, 2025 @02:33AM (#44470541)

> The productivity for software engineers is at around 30%

That would be a 70% descent?

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