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0 pointsjimbokun2mo ago0 comments

No, this is the kind of thing LLMs are very good at. Knowing the specifics and details and minutiae about technologies, programming languages, etc.

0 pointsjimbokun2mo ago0 comments

No, this is the kind of thing LLMs are very good at. Knowing the specifics and details and minutiae about technologies, programming languages, etc.

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bandrami2mo ago· 3 in thread

Oh Lord, no. Not at all. That's what they're terrible at. They are ok-ish at superficial overviews and catastrophically bad at specific minutiae

darth_aardvark2mo ago

Honest, non-confrontational, non-passive aggressive question: Have you used any of the latest models in the last 6 months to do coding? Or frankly, in the last year?

bigstrat20032mo ago

I have. And the people who say "use a frontier" model are full of it. The frontier models aren't any better than the free ones.

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satvikpendem2mo ago

They note in another comment they don't even use search engines so I don't think they're the right person to ask regarding frontier models.

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bandrami2mo ago· 3 in thread

Oh Lord, no. Not at all. That's what they're terrible at. They are ok-ish at superficial overviews and catastrophically bad at specific minutiae

darth_aardvark2mo ago

Honest, non-confrontational, non-passive aggressive question: Have you used any of the latest models in the last 6 months to do coding? Or frankly, in the last year?

bigstrat20032mo ago

I have. And the people who say "use a frontier" model are full of it. The frontier models aren't any better than the free ones.

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satvikpendem2mo ago

They note in another comment they don't even use search engines so I don't think they're the right person to ask regarding frontier models.

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