This is not a good thing. If you’re not being exposed and skilling up already, you’re likely to be in the camp that is washed away.

If you can’t be exposed to it in your day job, start using Claude opus in the evening so you know what’s coming.

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bandrami 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Eh, people have been warning me "you'll be left behind!" about the flavor of the week for decades now and it hasn't happened yet. If it happens it happens.

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matkoniecz 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So far I have not seen much skill gain from using LLM extensively.

Maybe I will be replaced by matrix multiplication in my job, but if I need to use LLM at some point I expect little benefit from starting now.

Yes, I tried to use Claude Code two months ago. It was scary, but not useful.

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rhubarbtree 13 hours ago | parent [-]

“Not useful” —- one of those moments where you have to be able to adjust your views in the face of new evidence. Humans are so wedded to their beliefs that it can be agonising to let go. I have nothing but respect for people who admit they were wrong, though. I remained a skeptic for a long time, but 4.5 was enough to convince me to adopt for production code.

	▲	matkoniecz 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So far I updated from "meh, not useful" to "scary, not useful". If it would be useful I would continue to use it, but at this point I would not use even if it would be free, not proprietary and not funding replacing me.