Anti-LLM Sentiment Considered Harmful

Ambrose:

to be superficially very competent but not someone I would hire - good coworkers/employees are people who don’t need that level of focus from me.

This is why I find the LLM to developer comparison ridiculous - the results depend way too much on whoever is using it.

If you had a colleague who could go from competent to unhinged because of a single word you used, that wouldn’t be a very good colleague at all.

Honestly, this whole discussion is a bit weird.

If you can use an LLM and produce output which is of high enough quality that people couldn’t tell is generated (spoiler: you would have to know what you’re doing), then go ahead, even the AI skeptics won’t mind. If you’re hoping to prompt “make dis betr” and push a +2000 line PR expecting someone else will review it and clean it up for you, then you’re being ridiculous.