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pjeremtoday at 6:48 AM0 repliesview on HN

I mean, even if the technology stopped to improve immediately forever (which is unlikely), LLMs are already better than most humans at most tasks.

Including code quality. Not because they are exceptionally good (you are right that they aren’t superhuman like AlphaGo) but because most humans are rather not that good at it anyway and also somehow « hallucinate » because of tiredness.

Even today’s models are far from being exploited at their full potential because we actually developed pretty much no tools around it except tooling to generate code.

I’m also a long time « doubter » but as a curious person I used the tool anyway with all its flaws in the latest 3 years. And I’m forced to admit that hallucinations are pretty rare nowadays. Errors still happen but they are very rare and it’s easier than ever to get it back in track.

I think I’m also a « believer » now and believe me, I really don’t want to because as much as I’m excited by this, I’m also pretty much frightened of all the bad things that this tech could to the world in the wrong hands and I don’t feel like it’s particularly in the right hands.