It’s almost like unrealistic expectations of LLMs driven by those working for companies who have something to gain by labeling any skepticism as “crazy” does significant damage to our perception of it’s usefulness.
I'm sorry, I read this comment like 3 times and I still don't understand what it's trying to say. Who are the companies you're talking about and are they too positive on LLMs or too negative?
Just that blind fanaticism leads to things like constant goal post moving when the product doesn’t live up to the hype. This damages people’s perception of the tool and causes them to be burnt out on it when it isn’t in fact magic.
Instead we should be accepting that people will or wont find uses for it depending on their competency (CRUD app churn VS somewhat novel creations) and accept that without telling them they’re nuts, luddites, etc.
Then again like I said the people doing that usually have something to gain such as a product related to the hype generating product.
I wrote that article, and I don't believe "any" skepticism of "AI" is nuts. As an existence proof: I think "vibe coding" produces results as bad as skeptics say it does. The article is pretty specific about what it says the nutty claims are.
It's just that... Framing your post in terms of the opinions of devs that you personally know, and not those of the AI-assistance community at large* resolved your issue with ofjcihen. for me (only, it seems :().
*explicitly including e.g., Lisp, Haskell (radical futurists?),
Could you restate it? My whole point in this thread is that the article is knocking down an argument many supporters of "AI coding" aren't making. As I've just demonstrated, it's easy to find a skeptical argument that this "supporter" agrees with.
I mean I could but I think a better way to get to the heart of this discussion is to ask why you put quotations around supporter when describing the author.
Do you think he’s secretly against the tool itself or do you acknowledge that maybe the tool just doesn’t work for him and his use case and maybe he’s not nuts for finding fault with it?
Believe it or not I agree.