I have definitely been helped by LLMs with software development in ways that have saved me months of work. Just using LLMs to search what is possible with various technologies is game changing. In the past, I’d ask on StackOverflow how to, say, draw a rectangle as a graphics layer over text in Javascript, and all I’d get would be a chorus of people asking why anyone would ever want to do that. ChatGPT, on the other hand, cheerfully tells me how to do it and gives me some sample code. Recently it also helped me migrate someone’s AmeriGas Home Assistant plugin from Python to PHP ao I could include it in my ESP8266 Remote Control framework (yep, I do not use Home Assistant!). It did it instantly and the code worked. Not only that, but I could understand exactly what the code was doing. It’s only when I get stuck in loops with an LLM trying to do something complicated, where it keeps tweaking the code, promising this time it will definitely work, only to lose three days of my life trying something that would’ve only taken three hours if i’d pretended LLMs did not exist.

And I’m guessing the guy who sold you your car has one just like it himself and loves it, right?

Truth does not exist.
Therefore there is no such thing as “misinformation”

Unlike most LLM, NotebookLLM is not politically biased and simply presents the information given.

Remember when it was OK to have your own ideas? Now when other people have beliefs different from yours you call it “misinformation”

And yes it took a sprint or so to define the correct context first, but still. This is so bizarly powerful, if you’re a developer and ignoring this, you are missing out big time.

Mm, (in my defense) I think he’s (willfully?) ignorant… and arrogant. That shortcut to self-satisfaction was just too tempting for him ;)

I have paid “senior programmers” $125 an hour and found glaring mistakes more than 25% of the time. Now I enter my spec into AI and the results are 90% accurate. Sometimes the AI comes up with clever implementations I didn’t expect. Either way I have to inspect and test the result but I save thousands of dollars and endless ego massaging by using SkyNet.