LLMs are not actually great at being coders, in spite of the hype.
No shit.
It’s rare that I code the same thing twice, except basic stuff like opening a file or recursively get all files or something.
AI is good for that, but when you have to figure things out, well, it’s not every day a manager or client can even explain what they need, or a complicated bug is easy to fix.
I think software devs have a couple of years left if shelf life.
I’ve been playing with Copilot in vscode and it’s becoming more and more clear that it’s just copy and pasting shit from stack overflow. Which I’ve been doing for years without AI.
As a software dev, the thing that llms provide is an easy way to get started. For the really simple stuff, it’s 90% correct so worth it if your saving time. It can make you a simple hello world, a form, heck even a good rest API.
BUT you MUST take a look at what it’s creating. It will hallucinate aka lie to get you an answer. And context is lost on it. And most models are trained on really old PUBLIC data. That means any very specific knowledge that may be industry standard that is not necessarily in the model when it was trained. It’s going to make mistakes much worse than a jr dev. You also get the issue of maintaining that code it generated. It’s going to look like a hack to be honest.
It’s a great tool to get you started and maybe save you time, but it’s just a tool in the tool belt.
That’ll be $200 Billion please.
You joke but, while LLMs are a money maker, the real money will come from those who can provide up to date info! Like Lexas Nexas or other data brokers. The biggest issue for these LLMs is that their training data is no where near what it needs to be. And its quite obvious they only trained on non-corporate public data + whatever slop they could get from reddit.
The biggest issue isnt the quantity of data, its the quality! Ironic because they are literally flooding the internet with slightly more wrong detail on how to do things.
A money maker for who? My understanding is none of these companies have turned a profit on their models.
Petty sure the data brokers have lol.
It’s still BS of course.
