alt Hacker News>... I was sure it was only good at autocomplete. Something happened earlier this year where the models hit a new level of capability.
Yes, something happened, it got better at autocomplete. What else could be? The underlying model hasn't changed.
>acceleration of the human race
Please just stop with this bullshit. Nobody's curing cancer, climate change, inequality or whatever important real problem there is with LLMs. Nobody.
If this tech is good enough to make you more productive is just because you're not working in anything new or cutting edge or innovative. The only reason a LLM knows how to do your job is because that code has been literally written before enough times to appear in the training data. Try to use llms to write C++26, some HDL or in any niche stack and you'll get a nice reality check about LLMs.
I’m sure I would be just as useless as an LLM in the “niche stack” examples that you cited.
Why do you think that is actually a good argument against? Most “business” problems have already been solved in some way and the times I had to write really novel code in my career have been very very few.
Also sure LLMs haven’t solved cancer or unequality in the few years they exist - but humans also failed here in the last couple thousand