I’ve used spicy auto-complete, as well as agents running in my IDE, in my CLI, or on GitHub’s server-side. I’ve been experimenting enough with LLM/AI-driven programming to have an opinion on it. And it kind of sucks.
LLMs do not understand anything. There is no semantic understanding whatsoever. It is merely stochastic generation of tokens according to a probability distribution derived from linguistic correlations in its training data.
Also, it is incredibly common for engineers at businesses to have their engineers write code to automate away boilerplate and otherwise inefficient processes. Nowhere did I say that automation must always be done via open source tooling (though that is certainly preferable when possible, of course).
What do you think people and businesses were doing before all of this LLM insanity? Exactly what I’m describing. It’s hardly novel or even interesting.
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LLMs do not understand anything. There is no semantic understanding whatsoever. It is merely stochastic generation of tokens according to a probability distribution derived from linguistic correlations in its training data.
Also, it is incredibly common for engineers at businesses to have their engineers write code to automate away boilerplate and otherwise inefficient processes. Nowhere did I say that automation must always be done via open source tooling (though that is certainly preferable when possible, of course).
What do you think people and businesses were doing before all of this LLM insanity? Exactly what I’m describing. It’s hardly novel or even interesting.
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