Have any other devs tried using LLMs for work? They’ve been borderline useless for me.

Also the notion of creating a generation of devs who have no idea what they are writing and no practice of resolving problems “manually” seems insanely dumb.

Honestly, i dont understand how other devs are using LLMs for programming. The fucking thing just gaslights you into random made up shit.

I tried as a test to give it a madeup problem. I mean, it could be a real problem. But i made it up to try. And it went "ah yes. This is actually a classic problem in (library name) version 4. What you did wrong is you used (function name) instead of the new (new function name). Here is the fixed code: "

And all of it was just made up. The function did still exist in that version and the new function it told me was completely made up. It has zero idea of what the fuck its doing. And if you tell it its wrong, it goes “oh my bad, you’re right hahaha. Function (old function name) still exists in version 4. Here is the fixed code:”

And again it made shit up. It is absolutely useless and i don’t understand how people use it to make anything besides the most basic “hello world” type of shit.

Often it also just gives you the same code over and over. Acting like it changed it and fixed it. But its the exact same as the response before it.

I do admit LLMs can be nice to brainstorm ideas with. But write code? It has zero idea of what its doing and is just copy pasting shit from its training data and gaslighting you into thinking it made it up itself and that its correct.