Raw LLM Responses

I’m not going to say that AI will never replace software engineers. However, I will say that AI in its current form (i.e. LLMs) will never replace software engineers. I’ve been using ChatGPT and friends almost since the beginning. It can do some incredible things. It’s made me a lot more productive in certain situations. But man whenever you go outside those boundaries it’s like pulling teeth, and it really hasn’t changed all that much. It’s gotten really good at spitting out code where there’s a billion examples on GitHub. But anything novel? Still not really much better than when it was first released. I still use it, and it’s a great tool, but unless there’s a radical shift it’s not going to be taking my job anytime soon because it often winds up causing more work in the end than if I’d just done it myself.