First step towards understanding something you obviously have strong feelings about, is to try to avoid hitting those triggers while you think about the thing, otherwise it clouds you. Not a requirement by any measure, just a tip.
> are you telling me people will do three years university to learn to prompt?
Are people going to university for three years to write "1.0" or "2.0" software? I certainly didn't, and I don't think even the majority of software developers have done so, at least in my personal experience but YMMV.
> I do not understand where there is anything here to be "not sure" on?
They're not sure about the specific naming, not the concept or talk as a whole.
> LLMs making non-deterministic mistakes
Everything they do is non-deterministic when temperature is set to anything above 0.0, as that's the entire point. The "correct" answers are as non-deterministic as the "mistakes", although I'm not sure "mistake" is correct because it did chose the right/correct tokens, it's just that you didn't like/expect it to chose that particular tokens.
Frequent LLM usage impairs thinking. The LLM has no connection to reality, and it takes over people's minds.
Is there hard evidence on this?
https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/
Otherwise, read pro-LLM blogs which are mostly rambling nonsense that overpromises while almost no actual LLM written software exists.
You can also see how the few open source developers who jump on the LLM bandwagon now have worse blogging and programming output than they had pre-LLM.
Software engineers are so lost in the weeds of sprawling feature pack endless flexibility programs that they have completely lost sight of simple narrow scope programs. I can tell an LLM exactly how we need the program to work (forgoing endless settings and option menus) and tell it exactly what it needs to do (forgoing endless branching possibilities for every conceivable user workflow) and get a lean lightweight program that takes the user from A to B in 3k LOC.
Is the program something that could be sold? No. Would it work for other companies/users? Probably not. Does it replace a massive 1M+ LOC $20/mo software package for that user in our bespoke use case? Yes.
Longer answer there was that study posted this week that compared it to using search and then what was it…raw thinking or something similar. I could totally understand in certain cases you are not activating parts of your brain as much, I don’t know any of it proves much in aggregate.
Far to early from any of the studies done so far to come to your conclusion.
But yes, there are studies to prove the most obvious statement in the world.
Do you really latch on to a single early study to make conclusions in the world? Wild. Next time before going down the path of rudeness, why don’t you share a real anecdote or thought. We have all seen that study linked many times already.
And no, it’s not nuanced at all. If you stop using your brain, you lose cognitive abilities. If you stop working out, you lose muscle. If you stop coding and let someone else do it, you lose coding abilities.
No one is being rude, that’s just what it feels like when someone calls you out with evidence.