On: Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome

[antonvs]

Are you boycotting AI or something?

If you try it yourself you'll soon find out that the answer is a very obvious yes.

You don't need a paid plan to benefit from that kind of assistance, either.

[bluefirebrand → antonvs]

> Are you boycotting AI or something?

At this point I am close to deciding to fully boycott it yes

> If you try it yourself you'll soon find out that the answer is a very obvious yes

I have tried plenty over the years, every time a new model releases and the hype cycle fires up again I look in to see if it is any better

I try to use it a couple of weeks, decide it is overrated and stop. Yes it is improving. No it is not good enough for me to trust

[antonvs → bluefirebrand]

You asked whether it's really better than "what we already had with search engines, online documentation and online Q&A sites".

How have you found it not to be significantly better for those purposes?

The "not good enough for you to trust" is a strange claim. No matter what source of info you use, outside of official documentation, you have to assess its quality and correctness. LLM output is no different.

[bluefirebrand → antonvs]

> How have you found it not to be significantly better for those purposes

Not even remotely

> LLM output is no different

It is different

A search result might take me to the wrong answer but an LLM might just invent nonsense answers

This is a fundamentally different thing and is more difficult to detect imo

[mgfist → bluefirebrand]

> A search result might take me to the wrong answer but an LLM might just invent nonsense answers

> This is a fundamentally different thing and is more difficult to detect imo

99% of the time it's not. You validate and correct/accept like you would any other suggestion.