Séimhe (sé / é)@Seimhe@lemmy.world
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Replying to @⁨Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club⁩

I’m finding it hard to reconcile the people who find it useless with those who find it useful. My own experience with languages is that it speeds me up for tasks I have the skills to verify, but with ones I don’t it can slow me down doing the verification and fixes.

I know software developers in a Fortune 500 company who swear that overall they are far more productive with “agents”. I don’t know if it’s a highly tailored system rather than the more all-purpose ones the general public have. So I do wonder if there are use cases for it.

It’s ruining the planet and our societies, though. And it’s distracting us from what really matters. Net negative for sure.

Edit: they’re also not very good at their most basic tasks. Researchers have found that when the major LLMs summarise articles, it misrepresents the facts 51% of the time.

A phone screen with the app icons ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity displayedwww.bbc.comAI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC findsThe BBC's head of news and current affairs says the developers of the tools are "playing with fire."
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Replying to @⁨Seimhe@lemmy.world⁩

My code adjacent work is much faster, but programming itself is about the same.

So if I need to make a data visualization or UI for data input it’s way better, but if I have to do an analysis or build something it sucks all the knowledge out of the task and takes twice as long. At least. Because unless I’m forming a strong understanding of the information the task can’t progress.

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