I am not convinced LLMs provide a damn thing of value.
I work as a software developer and the sheer increase to my productivity makes it extremely valuable for me on numerous fronts.
Id estimate Im about 4x as productive, give or take.
And most of that productivity isnt coding, most of it is what LLMs are good at:
Locating documentation (using it as a fuzzy find searcher by intent)
Generating documentation and improving documentation
Summarizing existing code
Quickly locating bugs
Its really good at fuzzy searching huge datasets, finding needles in haystacks. When Im trying to find something specific in a codebase with thousands of files quickly.
While I agree most people are using it wrong or poorly, if you do know how to use an LLM, it becomes a huge productivity boost.
I work as a software developer and the sheer increase to my productivity makes it extremely valuable for me on numerous fronts.
Id estimate Im about 4x as productive, give or take.
And most of that productivity isnt coding, most of it is what LLMs are good at:
Its really good at fuzzy searching huge datasets, finding needles in haystacks. When Im trying to find something specific in a codebase with thousands of files quickly.
While I agree most people are using it wrong or poorly, if you do know how to use an LLM, it becomes a huge productivity boost.