You were probably deficient in RESEARCH skills before. No offense to you, since I was also like this once. LLMs research and put the results on the plate. Yes, for people who were deficient in research skills, I can see 2-3x improvements.

Note1: I have "expert" level research skills. But LLMs still help me in research, but the boost is probably 1.2x max. But

Note2: By research, I mean googling, github search, forum search, etc. And quickly testing using jsfiddle/codepen, etc.

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throwaw12 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

no worries, I do not get offended quickly.

But I also think you are overestimating your RESEARCH skills, even if you are very good at research, I am sure you can't read 25 files in parallel, summarize them (even if its missing some details) in 1 minute and then come up with somewhat working solution in the next 2 minutes.

I am pretty sure, humans can't comprehend reading 25 code files with each having at least 400 lines of non-boilerplate code in 2 minutes. LLM can do it and its very very good at summarizing.

I can even steer its summarizing skills by prompting where to focus on when its reading files (because now I can iterate 2-3 times for each RESEARCH task and improve my next attempt based on shortcomings in the previous attempt)

	▲	truetraveller 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		OK, it's not just RESEARCH, but "RESEARCHability" of the source content [in this case code], and also critical analysis ability [not saying you are deficient in anything, speaking in general terms]. In this example, if the 25 files are organized nicely, and I had I nice IDE that listed class/namespace members of each file neatly, I might take 30 minutes to understand the overall structure. Morever, If I critically analyzed this, I would ask "how many times does this event of summarizing 25 files happen"? I mean, are we changing codebases every day? No, it's a one time cost. Moreover, manually going through will provide insight not returned by LLM. Obviously, every case is different, and perhaps you do need to RESEARCH new codebases often, I dunno!

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siva7 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ok Mr. Expert Level Researcher, go back and read the comment of parent again to find out that it has nothing to do with deficiency in research skills.

	▲	truetraveller 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Lol! Didn't mean any harm, just giving my 2cents!

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throwaw12 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

please don't change your comment constantly (or at maybe add UPDATE 1/2/3), because you had different words before, like you were saying something in this fashion:

* you probably lack good RESEARCH skills

* I can see at most 1.25x improvements - now it is 2-3x

By updating your comment you are making my reply irrelevant to your past response

	▲	truetraveller 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Apologies, I changed this within a ~10 minute period. Never knew you would actually see it so fast.