When talking with reasonable people, they have an intuition of what you want even if you don't say it, because there is a lot of non-verbal context. LLMs lack the ability to understand the person, but behave as if they had it.
People with a minimum amount of expertise stop asking for advice for average circumstances very quickly.
This means I use it as a typing accelerator when I already know what I want most of the time, not for advice.
As an exploratory tool sometimes, when I am sure others have solved a problem frequently, to have it regurgitate the average solution back at me and take a look. In those situations I never accept the diff as-is and do the integration manually though, to make sure my brain still learns along and I still add the solution to my own mental toolbox.
I'm not even sure what this is supposed to mean. It doesn't make syntax errors? Code that doesn't have the correct functionality is obviously not "top notch".
When talking with reasonable people, they will tell you if they don't understand what you're saying.
When talking with reasonable people, they will tell you if they don't know the answer or if they are unsure about their answer.
LLMs do none of that.
They will very happily, and very confidently, spout complete bullshit at you.
It is essentially a lotto draw as to whether the answer is hallucinated, completely wrong, subtly wrong, not ideal, sort of right or correct.
An LLM is a bit like those spin the wheel game shows on TV really.
A typical interaction with an LLM:
"Hey, how do I do X in Y?"
"That's a great question! A good way to do X in Y is Z!"
"No, Z doesn't work in Y. I get this error: 'Unsupported operation Z'."
"I apologize for making this mistake. You're right to point out Z doesn't work in Y. Let's use W instead!"
"Unfortunately, I cannot use W for company policy reasons. Any other option?"
"Understood: you cannot use W due to company policy. Why not try to do Z?"
"I just told you Z isn't available in Y."
"In that case, I suggest you do W."
"Like I told you, W is unacceptable due to company policy. Neither W nor Z work."
...
"Let's do this. First, use Z [...]"
No longer an issue with the current SOTA reasoning models.
