Interesting responses [WaybackSave/Archive] Tom Sydney Kerckhove on X: “I haven’t found any programming tasks that an LLM could do even barely correctly. What kind of code are you all writing?!” and later
They all come down to
- excuses for using LLM without any substantial result (most of the results come down to one having to become the tester and fixer of the generated code without newer generated code being improved: the opposite of coaching an apprentice)
- become better at prompting (which is basically regarding the prompt as a new programming language: been there, done that)
[WaybackSave/Archive] One of the “become better at prompting” replies referred to a blog post disguising prompting as writing lots of unit tests: [Wayback/Archive] The Cline AI Assistant is Mesmerizing · mtlynch.io
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 