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I am a guy that does things. A lowly dirt farmer. I also dabble in technology. Starter of many projects, completer of few.

> You are a manipulative liar and I have seen enough from you to have figured this out at this point. - Jeff Cliff

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I think LLMs are useful for coding, but I think the idea that the workflow should be "computer write -> human review" is backwards. they are excellent at finding your fuckups, but they are also excellent at fucking up. to me it seems more productive to use an LLM as a kind of pre-commit gate. "Take a look over what I'm proposing here and see if it's retarded."
that tends to work and feels somewhat productive. when I have a problem and it spits out what looks like a reasonable solution in a few lines, I might copy that into place, but I don't just let it write my files. Too many times it seemed to understand the problem and didn't, or it decided it just needed to paint a picture of completeness rather than actually completing a thing. That is harder to detect, especially if you're getting mountains of code from the thing and you have time lines to consider.

That said, this kind of behavior is evidence it's not "intelligence" at play. A human is likely to attempt deceit, but I think most would know this is the kind of thing that will only cause them pain in the future. A computer is not concerned with the future implications at all. solve the current problem (or appear to at least) is all they are attempting to do