whenever I try to use LLM to work on my day to day tasks, I almost always walk away frustrated and disappointed
dns_snek on Hacker News
In the thread “How I program with LLMs”, replying to this comment
Got in the way: LLMs failed to produce working code quickly for routine tasks.
As an experienced software developer, I paid for ChatGPT for a couple of months, I trialed Gemini Pro for a couple of months, and I've used the current version of Claude. I'd be happy if LLMs could produce working code as often and as quickly as the evangelist claim, but whenever I try to use LLM to work on my day to day tasks, I almost always walk away frustrated and disappointed - and most of my work is boring on technical merits, I'm not writing novel comp-sci algorithms or cryptography libraries. Every time I say this, I'm painted as some luddite who just hates change when the reality is that no, current LLMs are just not fit for many of the purposes they're being evangelized for. …