GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom

1. There was no error on line 91, it did some inconsequential formatting on that line 2. More importantly, it just ignored the very specific line I told it to go to. It's like I was playing telephone with the LLM which felt so strange with text-based communication.

This was me trying to get better at using the LLM while coding and seeing if I could "one-shot" some very simple things. Of course me doing this _very_ tiny fix myself would have been faster. Just felt weird and reinforces this idea that the LLM isn't actually thinking at all.

You need to give LLMs context. Line number isn't good context.

a line number is plenty of context - it's directly translatable into a range of bytes/characters in the file

I can choose to use a screwdriver to hammer in a nail and complain about how useless screwdrivers are. Or I can realize when and how to use it.

We (including marketing & execs) have made a huge mistake in anthropomorphizing these things, because then we stop treating them like tools that have specific use cases to be used in certain ways, and more like smart humans that don't need that.

Maybe one day they'll be there, but today they are screwdrivers. That doesn't make them useless.