alt Hacker NewsWhile there's not a lot of meat on the bone for this post, one section of it reflects the overall problem with the idea of Claude-as-everything:
> I spent weeks casually trying to replicate what took years to build. My inability to assess the complexity of the source material was matched by the inability of the models to understand what it was generating.
When the trough of disillusionment hits, I anticipate this will become collective wisdom, and we'll tailor LLMs to the subset of uses where they can be more helpful than hurtful. Until then, we'll try to use AI to replace in weeks what took us years to build.
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I would think/hope that the code assist LLMs would be optimizing towards supportable/legible code solutions overall. Mostly in that they can at least provide a jumping off point, largely accepting that they more often than not won't be able to produce complete, finished solutions entirely.
If LLMs stopped improving today I’m sure you would be correct- as it is I think it’s very hard to predict what the future holds and where the advancements take us.
I don’t see a particularly good reason why LLMs wouldn’t be able to do most programming tasks, with the limitation being our ability to specify the problem sufficiently well.