Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
by antonvs on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @05:32PM
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You asked whether it's really better than "what we already had with search engines, online documentation and online Q&A sites".
How have you found it not to be significantly better for those purposes?
The "not good enough for you to trust" is a strange claim. No matter what source of info you use, outside of official documentation, you have to assess its quality and correctness. LLM output is no different.
Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
by bluefirebrand on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @06:11PM
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> How have you found it not to be significantly better for those purposes
Not even remotely
> LLM output is no different
It is different
A search result might take me to the wrong answer but an LLM might just invent nonsense answers
This is a fundamentally different thing and is more difficult to detect imo
Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
by mgfist on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @08:10PM
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> A search result might take me to the wrong answer but an LLM might just invent nonsense answers
> This is a fundamentally different thing and is more difficult to detect imo
99% of the time it's not. You validate and correct/accept like you would any other suggestion.
At this point I am close to deciding to fully boycott it yes
> If you try it yourself you'll soon find out that the answer is a very obvious yes
I have tried plenty over the years, every time a new model releases and the hype cycle fires up again I look in to see if it is any better
I try to use it a couple of weeks, decide it is overrated and stop. Yes it is improving. No it is not good enough for me to trust