In the end, it was no faster than writing the query myself, but it wasn't slower either, so I can see it being somewhat helpful in limited conditions
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no faster than writing the query myself
In the thread “Classic Data science pipelines built with LLMs”, replying to this comment
Helped: Writing a query to load JSON data into a data warehouse.
Got in the way: Required several rounds of refinement and hand-holding; end result almost but not quite correct.
… So I'm not coming at this from the perspective of hating LLMs a priori, but I am unimpressed with the hype and over-selling of its capabilities. In the end, it was no faster than writing the query myself, but it wasn't slower either, so I can see it being somewhat helpful in limited conditions. Unless the technology makes another quantum leap improvement at the same time the price drops like a stone, I don't see LLMs coming anywhere close to your claim. …