Eric S. Raymond take on AI
Raymond@esrtweetThis is a certain kind of talk around LLMs that I find increasingly puzzling. That is all of the people bitching that LLMs constantly generate crap code and hallucinate solutions, and are worthless for programming. This has almost never happened to me, and never during the last two model generations I have used (chat GPT 5.4 and 5.5).
- ▪Raymond@esrtweetThis is a certain kind of talk around LLMs that I find increasingly puzzling.
- ▪That is all of the people bitching that LLMs constantly generate crap code and hallucinate solutions, and are worthless for programming.
- ▪This has almost never happened to me, and never during the last two model generations I have used (chat GPT 5.4 and 5.5).
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Eric S. Raymond@esrtweetThis is a certain kind of talk around LLMs that I find increasingly puzzling. That is all of the people bitching that LLMs constantly generate crap code and hallucinate solutions, and are worthless for programming. This has almost never happened to me, and never during the last two model generations I have used (chat GPT 5.4 and 5.5). Occasionally a model used to get a little deranged when I pushed its context limit, but under codex that doesn't happen anymore; instead I got a red-highlighted warning when the limit has been exceeded and I need to clear my session. I've applied AI to feature changes, refactoring, and debugging over 63 different projects written in C, Go, Rust, Python, and shell. I've written documentation with it.
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