78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.
Pretty much everyone I’ve talked to about this says the same thing. LLMs are useful for one-off scripts or quickly generating boilerplate. It just turns out that those tasks don’t make up the majority of programming work unless you are in a bullshit job anyway.
We aren’t yet great at knowing when LLM will save time and when it will inflate time.
They’re probably pretty good for CRUD apps, which do tend to be like 50% boilerplate, but also I also wouldn’t characterise them as “bullshit”. Boring maybe.
Pretty much everyone I’ve talked to about this says the same thing. LLMs are useful for one-off scripts or quickly generating boilerplate. It just turns out that those tasks don’t make up the majority of programming work unless you are in a bullshit job anyway.
We aren’t yet great at knowing when LLM will save time and when it will inflate time.
If only we libraries online of boilerplate crap with a few options to transfom them slightly… We’d need a lot less datacentres
They’re probably pretty good for CRUD apps, which do tend to be like 50% boilerplate, but also I also wouldn’t characterise them as “bullshit”. Boring maybe.