What’s the benefit of example code in a project if you have to change it all anyway? What’s the benefit of an article summary if you end up reading the article afterward? What’s the benefit of a college course that just teaches you how to learn on your own (i.e. most of them)?
LLMs are great for some things, terrible for others, just like any tool. Use them for what they’re good at (generating example code, getting an intro to a topic, etc) and not what they’re poor at (greenfield projects, hard questions, etc). As you use the tool more, you’ll get a feel for what it’s good at and what it’s not.
This is it. I remember 15 to 20 years ago there were people who were GOOD at using Google and people who were bad at it. The difference was knowing what the search engine was good at and how to ask it the right questions.
People who just went in blindly and clicked on the first link didn’t get what they needed out of it. Did that make it a bad tool? Probably not.
Using a LLM wrong is just as bad as using the wrong size wrench. Would a giant crescent wrench get a tiny nut off a bolt? Probably, but it would make more sense to use the right size one in the first place.
What’s the benefit of example code in a project if you have to change it all anyway? What’s the benefit of an article summary if you end up reading the article afterward? What’s the benefit of a college course that just teaches you how to learn on your own (i.e. most of them)?
LLMs are great for some things, terrible for others, just like any tool. Use them for what they’re good at (generating example code, getting an intro to a topic, etc) and not what they’re poor at (greenfield projects, hard questions, etc). As you use the tool more, you’ll get a feel for what it’s good at and what it’s not.
This is it. I remember 15 to 20 years ago there were people who were GOOD at using Google and people who were bad at it. The difference was knowing what the search engine was good at and how to ask it the right questions.
People who just went in blindly and clicked on the first link didn’t get what they needed out of it. Did that make it a bad tool? Probably not.
Using a LLM wrong is just as bad as using the wrong size wrench. Would a giant crescent wrench get a tiny nut off a bolt? Probably, but it would make more sense to use the right size one in the first place.