> You're gonna get left in the dust by everyone else embracing LLMs.
Probably not, there's a very long tail to this sort of stuff, and there's plenty of programming to go around.
I'll chime in with your enthusiasm though. Like the author of the post, I've been using LLMs productively for quite a while now and in a similar style (and similarly skeptical about previous hype cycles).
LLMs are so useful, and it's fascinating to see how far people swing the opposite way on them. Such variable experiences, we're really at the absolute beginning of this whole thing (and the last time I said that to a group of friends there was a range of agreement/disagreement on that too!)
They’re certainly useful if you know what you’re doing. An example: if I try to create an application in .NET for Windows, I’ll have a hard time using an LLM cause I’ll have no way to know if the solutions are the best, what’s possible and what isn’t, etc.
But I’m an iOS developer who doesn’t have experience with SwiftUI. I’ve been creating an app clone for the purpose of learning it and I’ve been using ChatGPT extensively like one would use StackIverflow when you’re still picking up a new framework. It works very well and I’ve advanced very fast because I’ve read and watched multiple content about it, just never got into actually using it. It’s easy to know and even try out variations of what the LLM gives me. It feels like having a friend that knows SwIftUI which I can ask stupid questions as I try it out.
Probably not, there's a very long tail to this sort of stuff, and there's plenty of programming to go around.
I'll chime in with your enthusiasm though. Like the author of the post, I've been using LLMs productively for quite a while now and in a similar style (and similarly skeptical about previous hype cycles).
LLMs are so useful, and it's fascinating to see how far people swing the opposite way on them. Such variable experiences, we're really at the absolute beginning of this whole thing (and the last time I said that to a group of friends there was a range of agreement/disagreement on that too!)
Very exciting.