> using words that mean different things to different people
This might be a good explanation for the disconnect!
> I would point that LLM boosters have been saying the same thing
I certainly 100% agree that lots of LLM boosters are way over-selling what they can accomplish as well.
> In other words if you really believed what you were saying you should pick up the money on the ground.
I mean, I'm doing that in the sense that I am using them. I also am not saying that I "know the special sauce of how to use LLMs to make a massive difference in productivity," but what I will say is, my productivity is genuinely higher with LLM assistance than without. I don't necessarily believe that means it's replicable, one of the things I'm curious about it "is it something special about my setup or what I'm doing or the technologies I'm using or anything else that makes me have a good time with this stuff when other smart people seem to only have a bad time?" Because I don't think that the detractors are just lying. But there is a clear disconnect, and I don't know why.
There is so much tacit understanding by both LLM-boosters and LLM-skeptics that only becomes apparent when you look at the explicit details of how they are trying to use the tools. That's why I've asked in the past for examples of recording of real-time development that would capture all the nuance explicitly. Cherry-picked chat logs are second best but even then I haven't been particularly impressed by the few examples I've seen.
> I mean, I'm doing that in the sense that I am using them.
My point is whatever you are doing is worth millions of dollars less than teaching the non-believers how to do it if you could figure out how (actually probably even if you couldn't but sold snake-oil).
This might be a good explanation for the disconnect!
> I would point that LLM boosters have been saying the same thing
I certainly 100% agree that lots of LLM boosters are way over-selling what they can accomplish as well.
> In other words if you really believed what you were saying you should pick up the money on the ground.
I mean, I'm doing that in the sense that I am using them. I also am not saying that I "know the special sauce of how to use LLMs to make a massive difference in productivity," but what I will say is, my productivity is genuinely higher with LLM assistance than without. I don't necessarily believe that means it's replicable, one of the things I'm curious about it "is it something special about my setup or what I'm doing or the technologies I'm using or anything else that makes me have a good time with this stuff when other smart people seem to only have a bad time?" Because I don't think that the detractors are just lying. But there is a clear disconnect, and I don't know why.