I thought I had it worked out, how to sort of strike a balance so I can keep my focus intact and let it be helpful without wasting time constantly correcting its stuff or shying away from actually paying attention to the code. But I think my strategy of “let the LLM generate a bunch of vomit to get things started and then take on the correct and augmentation from a human standpoint” has let the overall designs at a high level get a lot sloppier than they used to be.
Yeah, you might be right, it might be time to just set the stuff aside except for very specialized uses.
That means you’re getting dumber
Certainly possible
I’m also genuinely a little bit alarmed looking back now at my pre-LLM code and seeing the quality vs. the with-LLM code.
There’s nothing stopping you from wasting your time with the bullshit generator.
I thought I had it worked out, how to sort of strike a balance so I can keep my focus intact and let it be helpful without wasting time constantly correcting its stuff or shying away from actually paying attention to the code. But I think my strategy of “let the LLM generate a bunch of vomit to get things started and then take on the correct and augmentation from a human standpoint” has let the overall designs at a high level get a lot sloppier than they used to be.
Yeah, you might be right, it might be time to just set the stuff aside except for very specialized uses.
Specialised domains are where LLMs really show how thoroughly they can hallucinate bullshit.