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0 pointskelseyfrog2y ago0 comments

Programmers[1] have a complexity bias that interferes with the idea that LLMs can write useful code.

I had a problem last week where I wanted to extract sheet names and selection ranges from the Numbers app for a few dozen spreadsheets. ChatGPT, came up with the idea of using Apple script and with a but of coaxing wrote a script to do it. I don't know ApplesScript and I really don't want to learn it. I want to solve my problem and its 10 lines of AppleScript did just that.

We're nowhere near LLMs being capable of writing codebases, be we are here for LLMs being able to write valuable code because those concepts are orthogonal.

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gumballindie2y ago

I am confused - the "code" you described is likely a google search away. Well I mean google has become useless but when it worked it was able to find such stuff in one search. So really all I am getting is that gpt is a better google.

kelseyfrogOP2y ago

I'm not quite understanding. It sounds like I was supposed to use google search before it stopped working?

A great counterexample would be a google query which includes the answer in the results.

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