So, you believe most software engineers are not using LLMs for coding?
Personally I haven't, but I have used LLMs alongside traditional search engines. I'm starting to wonder if I should incorporate it... But I'm concerned about it stealing my code to train on.
My personal thinking is that AI is being implicitly forced on all of us via the tools we use. Otherwise, I suspect almost nobody would be using LLMs to write original code except for the people who never had the confidence to write original code in the first place.
I also think there is a much larger productive grey zone where some more senior developers are learning to use LLMs to do non challenging tasks as a form of dumb automation. It’s hard to tell how much any of this really occurs because the AI companies and the shitty developers drastically inflate the numbers as a form of validation.
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The AI hype, like everything else in software, falls into one of two camps:
1. People that can’t do more than follow trends
2. Young people trying to predict their own future
Everything else is the silent majority.
So, you believe most software engineers are not using LLMs for coding?
Personally I haven't, but I have used LLMs alongside traditional search engines. I'm starting to wonder if I should incorporate it... But I'm concerned about it stealing my code to train on.
My personal thinking is that AI is being implicitly forced on all of us via the tools we use. Otherwise, I suspect almost nobody would be using LLMs to write original code except for the people who never had the confidence to write original code in the first place.
I also think there is a much larger productive grey zone where some more senior developers are learning to use LLMs to do non challenging tasks as a form of dumb automation. It’s hard to tell how much any of this really occurs because the AI companies and the shitty developers drastically inflate the numbers as a form of validation.