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At non-extremely niche tasks they fail as well.

I should start collecting examples, if only for threads like this. Recently I tried to llm a tsserver plugin that treats lines ending with "//del" as empty. You can only imagine all the sneaky failures in the chat and the total uselessness of these results.

Anything that is not literally millions (billions?) of times in the training set is doomed to be fantasized about by an LLM. In various ways, tones, etc. After many such threads I came to conclusion that people who find it mostly useful are simply treading water as they probably have done most of their career. Their average product is a react form with a crud endpoint and excitement about it. I can't explain their success reports otherwise, cause it rarely works on anything beyond that.






LLMs are basically a search engine for Stack Overflow and Github that doesn't suck as bad as Google does.

If your job is copy-pasting from Stack Overflow then LLMs are an upgrade.


Welcome to the new digital divide people, and the start of a new level of "inequality" in this world. This thread is proof that we've diverged and there is a huge subset of people that will not have their minds changed easily.



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