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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by bluefirebrand on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @06:11PM (#44805074)
> 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

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by mgfist on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @08:10PM (#44806113)
> 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.

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