The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway

Re:The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway by mcv on Friday July 17, 2026 @05:38AM (#48945212)

A few months ago, I heard a keynote speaker claim that LLMs did not give any measurable productivity gains, except in two fields: customer support and software development, where they resulted in about 30% productivity improvement. I forgot if he presented any sources, and if he did, I forgot those, but it sounds plausible to me.

But instead of productivity, I'm much more interested in using it to improve quality. You've got a tireless reviewer who is always ready to review your code and catch any gaps.

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Re:The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway by Hugsbox on Friday July 17, 2026 @07:46AM (#48946150)

I don't know how they're measuring productivity for customer support, but it certainly isn't in terms of customer satisfaction. People have never been happy with chatbots when they're trying to reach a human.

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Re:The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway by sethammons on Friday July 17, 2026 @08:42AM (#48946696)

We are getting ai responses from cloud providers. From both aws and google, my teams have received obviously ai generated and non-applicable advice.

The latest was that we need to write in object pooling in their client code, an option that doesn't exist yet in _their_ client code. Like, yo, that is a you-problem on performance bottlenecks; we expect you to provide solutions.

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