I spent an hour with Gemini this morning trying to get instructions to compile a common open source tool for an uncommon platform.

It was an hour of pasting in error messages and getting back "Aha! Here's the final change you need to make!"

Underwhelming doesn't even begin to describe it.

But, even if I'm wrong, we were told that COBOL would make programming redundant. Then UML was going to accelerate development. Visual programming would mean no more mistakes.

All of them are in the coding mix somewhere, and I suspect LLMs will be.

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ej88 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> write an article dismissing ai

> usage is copy pasting code back and forth with gemini

the jokes write themselves

	▲	edent 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's the most recent time. But I've bounced around all the LLMs - they're all superficially amazing. But if you understand their output they often wrong in both subtle and catastrophic ways. As I said, maybe I'm wrong. I hope you have fun using them.