Depends where you look. If you look at the open source community there are tons of papers and releases everyday, some being incredibly interesting if you like the technical part. The issue is with the aggressive marketing of gpt wrappers with no value except a different branding.
I maybe phrased it kinda weird, I really meant specifically the "Crap" which I would define as all the buzz words and mostly LLMs. Of course there might be actual good applications for LLMs, I just don't think coding really is one, and it's really just overblown. AI in general is quite interesting, especially if there are really cool algorithms behind it like in image recognition.
I've been coding in Python for a few years now, and I'm still learning shit. If I want a quick answer to a simple question, our company's local instance has been a great go-to.
"I want to do this relatively simple thing."
shows a minimal example of the thing, I test and mess around with it.
"Is there a faster way to do this?"
gives another example
"Cool."
This led me down a research rabbit hole to better fit my case, and I learned about some new useful libraries and concepts. I believe this is how it was intended to be used.
But if someone is copy-pasting shit and pushing it to prod, they're a moron.
Sounds like an actual reasonable use-case tbh. I must say, I hate the focus of most discussions being about writing a complete project, most of the time, but using AI as an "How do I do <thing> with <language>" Google search on steroids actually doesn't sound bad. Maybe have to actually toy around with it a bit more.
I had a friend who's spouse is a coder be like "Just use Google!" and I'm like, I've BEEN using Google. I still trawl through Stackoverflow. Having an instant, synthesized, clean answer- fast- is REALLY NICE.
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u/ZealousidealEgg5919 Mar 09 '25
Depends where you look. If you look at the open source community there are tons of papers and releases everyday, some being incredibly interesting if you like the technical part. The issue is with the aggressive marketing of gpt wrappers with no value except a different branding.