Reading this article seems outdated and therefore quaint in some areas now, the “we’ve all felt that moment of staring at a small bit of simple code that can’t possibly be failing and yet it does” - I so rarely experience this anymore as I’d have an LLM take a look and they tend to find these sort of “stupid” bugs very quickly. But my earlier days were full of these issues so it’s almost nostalgic for me now. Bugs nowadays are far more insidious when they crop up.

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alecbz 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Trying to get LLMs to understand bugs that I myself am stuck on has had an approximately 0% success rate for me.

They're energetic "interns" that can churn out a lot of stuff fast but seem to struggle a lot with critical thinking.

	▲	chrisjj 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> seem to struggle a lot with critical thinking. It is an illusion arising from anthropomorphisation. They aren't thinking at all. They are just parotting the output of thinking that has long gone.