Lemmings, I was hoping you could help me sort this one out: LLM’s are often painted in a light of being utterly useless, hallucinating word prediction machines that are really bad at what they do. At the same time, in the same thread here on Lemmy, people argue that they are taking our jobs or are making us devs lazy. Which one is it? Could they really be taking our jobs if they’re hallucinating?
Disclaimer: I’m a full time senior dev using the shit out of LLM’s, to get things done at a neck breaking speed, which our clients seem to have gotten used to. However, I don’t see “AI” taking my job, because I think that LLM’s have already peaked, they’re just tweaking minor details now.
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It’s because the “AI bad” crowd on Lemmy are dumb and annoying, but they are vocal. AI is an incredibly useful tool. As a senior dev I also use the shit out of LLMs to speed up my work. They do not hallucinate, at least during coding sessions. And I believe they will take junior level front end developers out of the market. Senior developers, who know how to review the code that is generated, will be safe.