alt Hacker NewsTrivializing code has reached an insufferable nadir. It is like saying math or medicine is the easy part, or cooking or carpentry. Often those who say it cannot code or read code, and are good at marketing, so they simply keep on promoting it and be dismissive of other work. Disillusioned to see it at the top of HN, and hand waving away methodical and substantial activities can only bode badly.
It's akin to saying "swinging a hammer is the easy part of creating a building". Or "inserting a needle into a vein is the easy part of medicine".
Both are somewhat true, and yet, I'll still be quite happy if we have AI that can do them.
I'm certainly not trying to trivialize the progress that LLMs are making. I'm trying to be realistic, noting both the strengths and weaknesses of LLMs, and what that means for the fields they touch.