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wfurneytoday at 9:39 AM1 replyview on HN

I’m interested in the “non-trivial” point as well, this seems to be a common refrain from the anti-LLM tech crowd, “LLMs aren’t good at doing anything non-trivial”, well is that really the case or is it just harder and one needs to put in more practice for more complicated tasks?

I don’t have an example off hand, but I know that it’s easy to dismiss something an LLM does as trivial if your work is extremely marginal. Most devs aren’t creating their own programming languages. I can’t help but think people who hold this opinion also think the work most software professionals do is “trivial” (“you’re just moving strings around, that’s not impressive/trivial”)


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fluidcrufttoday at 12:42 PM

On the one hand there's simonw's concept of a "frequent LLM user" and then there's the actual vast majority of people using ChatGPT web app or one of the various Office CoPilots.