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LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code (blog.katanaquant.com)

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Quite apart from all other considerations, my problem with all this is: LLMs are no longer tools assisting us. We are tools assisting them. I don't want to spend my life as an "LLM output checker".

How long is that going to even work assuming you can find people willing to do it? Right now it occasionally does, but at what point will the group of people with the skills required to do so have shrunk and their abilities degraded to the point where everything devolves into a blind leading the blind scenario? LLMs have been trained on our code. Now we're being trained on theirs, and it's not going to end well.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

We are tools assisting them. I don’t want to spend my life as an “LLM output checker”.

It's possible you read this text already, but if you didn't, Cory Doctorow wrote a great piece about this. Some good excerpts of it that fit really well what you said:

Start with what a reverse centaur is. In automation theory, a “centaur” is a person who is assisted by a machine. You’re a human head being carried around on a tireless robot body. Driving a car makes you a centaur, and so does using autocomplete.

And obviously, a reverse centaur is machine head on a human body, a person who is serving as a squishy meat appendage for an uncaring machine.

Obviously, it’s nice to be a centaur, and it’s horrible to be a reverse centaur. There are lots of AI tools that are potentially very centaur-like, but my thesis is that these tools are created and funded for the express purpose of creating reverse-centaurs, which is something none of us want to be.

The AI can’t do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can’t do your job.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 4 points 23 hours ago

No, I'd missed that one, so thank you very much for the link. It was - as is typical of Doctorow's musings - a very good read, which I can wholeheartedly recommend to anyone else who're interested.

[–] artwork@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 3 points 1 day ago

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Yeah. I'm done. If anybody needs me, I'll be over here writing open source code in my spare time without externalizing my cognitive capability. I guess I'll seek out a new career in public sanitation to pay the rent. At least that way, I'll know I'm making an unambiguous positive contribution to society.