Just bought The Rails 7 Way and Patterns of Application Development Using AI by Obie Fernandez 🎉
I’m particularly excited to read the AI one, I want to up my game.
@wood If you really want to up your game, uh, you maaay want to look elsewhere! 🤣 https://visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx
New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality' -- Visual Studio Magazine@danhulton I don’t think this book is about GitHub Copilot. 🙂
@wood I mean it is and it isn't. Obviously it's not LITERALLY about Copilot. But I'm mainly offering that as an example of what was considered to be a slam-dunk example of LLM-augmented applications, and how it didn't really turn out.
Most developers who use an LLM tool in their code editors notice a significant speed up and report a pretty high level of satisfaction, so, easy win, right? But studies are cautioning that devs are turning in worse code, just faster. (1/5)
So ultimately, I'm concerned about any of application that introduces AI augmentation. I think the actual, practical applications of LLMs are going to be more limited than they were originally advertised as, and a lot of existing applications and tasks that expect firm and factual inputs are just not going to be improved by their addition. (3/5)
Which is likely WAAAY off topic from what you were originally taking about, which is likely as simple as wanting to level up your skill in using these tools, but I didn't want you to think I was drive-by insulting your choice, I just realized I had a longer point I was trying to make that I poorly explained with my original, light-hearted, and incomplete post. (5/5)
