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LLM Inevitabilism

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1611 points SwoopsFromAbove | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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kazinator ◴[15 Jul 25 05:42 UTC] No.44568164[source]▶
LLM is an almost complete waste of time. Advocates of LLM are not accurately measuring their time and productivity, and comparing that to LLM-free alternative approaches.
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phito ◴[15 Jul 25 09:19 UTC] No.44569387[source]▶
Indeed, I keep seeing comments stating that LLMs have completely changed their way of programming or even changed their lives. All I can think is, they must have been pretty bad at programming for the impact to be that dramatic.
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1. immibis ◴[15 Jul 25 20:06 UTC] No.44575304[source]▶
Well, studies keep showing that using LLMs like that switches your brain off in an alarmingly short amount of time, possibly permanently, turning you into a mindless automaton intermediating between other people and your computer, and also makes you take longer to do things while thinking you're taking less time.

LLMs completely change the way people do things, in the same way that methamphetamine addictions completely change the way people do things.