Jeff Atwood @codinghorror@infosec.exchange
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bad news "AI bubble doomers". I've found the LLMs to be incredibly useful and reduce the workload (and/or make people much, MUCH more effective at their jobs with the "centaur" model).

Is it overhyped? FUCK Yes. Salespeople Gotta Always Be Closing. But this is NOTHING like the moronic Segway (I am still bitter about that crap), Cryptocurrency, which is all grifters and gamblers and criminals end-to-end, and the first dot-com bubble where not NEARLY enough people had broadband or even internet access, plus the logistics systems to support shipping products was nowhere REMOTELY where it is today.

If you are expecting this "AI bubble" to pop anytime soon, uh.. you might be waiting a bit longer than you think? Overhyped, yes, overbuilding, sure, but not remotely a true bubble any any of the same senses of the three examples I listed above 👆. There's something very real, very practical, very useful here, and it is getting better every day.

If you find this uncomfortable, I'm sorry, but I know what I know, and I can cite several dozen very specific examples in the last 2-3 weeks where it saved me, or my team, quite a bit of time.

Elijah Martin-Merrill @elijah@mast.wangwood.house
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@codinghorrorJeff Atwood I'm right there with you. The increased productivity is staggering when you know how to write the prompts.
1. Pretend you're writing a legal document or contract - say the things that seem obvious and be painfully precise.
2. use the LLM to eliminate tedious tasks entirely.
3. treat it like a smart junior team member you're collaborating with - give it the shape of what you expect the result to be.

Using these rules, what used to take 3 days can be accomplished in 3 hours.

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