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LLM's hallucinating or taking our jobs? (lemmy.world)

submitted 20 hours ago by monounity@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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Lemmings, I was hoping you could help me sort this one out: LLM's are often painted in a light of being utterly useless, hallucinating word prediction machines that are really bad at what they do. At the same time, in the same thread here on Lemmy, people argue that they are taking our jobs or are making us devs lazy. Which one is it? Could they really be taking our jobs if they're hallucinating?

Disclaimer: I'm a full time senior dev using the shit out of LLM's, to get things done at a neck breaking speed, which our clients seem to have gotten used to. However, I don't see "AI" taking my job, because I think that LLM's have already peaked, they're just tweaking minor details now.

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[–] monounity@lemmy.world -1 points 19 hours ago (9 children)

But that's point of my post, how can they take junior devs jobs if they're all hallucinating constantly? And let me tell you, we're hiring juniors.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

I think your question is covered by the original commentator. They do hallucinate often, and the job does become using the tool more effectively which includes capturing and correcting those errors.

Naturally, greater efficiency is an element of job reduction. They can be both hallucinating often and creating additional efficiency that reduces jobs.

[–] monounity@lemmy.world -5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

But they're not hallucinating when I use them? Are you just repeating talking points? It's not like the code I write is somehow connected with an AI, I just bounce my code off of an LLM. And when I'm done reviewing each line, adding stuff, checking design docs etc, no one could tell that an LLM was ever used for creating that piece of code in the first place. To this date I've never failed a code review on "that's AI slop, please remove".

I'd argue that greater efficiency sometimes gives me more free time, hue hue

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 points 19 hours ago

And that’s fantastic! That’s what technology is supposed to do IMHO - Give you more free time because of that efficiency. That’s technology making life better for humans. I’m glad that you’re experiencing that.

If they’re not hallucinating as you use them, then I’m afraid we just have different experiences. Perhaps you’re using better models or you’re using your tools more effectively than I am. In that case, I must respect that you are having a different and equally legitimate experience.

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