It has to be pure ignorance.
I only have used my works stupid llm tool a few times (hey, I have to give it a chance and actually try it before I form opinions)
Holy shit it’s bad. Every single time I use it I waste hours. Even simple tasks, it gets details wrong. I correct it constantly. Then I come back a couple months later, open the same module to do the same task, it gets it wrong again.
These aren’t even tools. They’re just shit. An idiot intern is better.
Its so angering people think this trash is good. Get ready for a lot of buildings and bridges to collapse because of young engineers trusting a slop machine to be accurate on details. We will look back on this as the worst era in computing.
I know this community is all about fuck AI, but this is just straight echo chambering.
But honestly your post sounds like you’re just not using it right? You can get pretty good results with it with enough guardrails. Just because you can’t get the results you want doesn’t mean that no one can.
That said, fuck AI. It’s all a bunch of bullshit, but denying real results just means you’re sticking your head in the sand and that’s not how you fix this problem.
Or that it’s not right for their use case.
Like someone throwing a bunch of data into an LLM and trying to use it to process it into a chart or something. It can work, but it was never designed to be used in that manner.
I’ve got an acquaintance who does that, despite the fact that python would be a better thing to use.
Personally, I sometimes run a few saved images thorough a multi-modal 8 gigaparameter local model on my computer, so I can automate giving them more descriptive names than randomnumbers.png, and that seems to work fine. I could do it by hand, but it would take hours and days, compared to minutes, and since it’s not too important, it doesn’t matter if it’s wrong. The resource usage is also less of an issue, since it’s my own computer.
examples?
For a research project, I had to convert 20+ projects from a dataset into a new format. The old format was simply a single script for each project that builds it. But I needed a format with a Docker file and a script. It would’ve taken me around a week to do all that one by one.
I got Claude to do it in 2 hours.
I know people hate AI in this community, but to say it doesn’t do anything good or to insult all people who use it is just pure negativity.
I agree… Saying LLMs are good at nothing is just plain ignorance… One can disagree with the philosophy or dislike hallucinations, but they are definitely good at some things.
It’s basically like Google with a bit more detail in my experience. Everytime I’ve tried to use it in a professional context, I’ve come up massively empty. Pages and pages and pages and pages of just absolutely walls of text, but nothing actually useful. I mean I’ve got it to calculate stuff and whatever, but then you examine something and its not coming up for you like the LLM says it should be. Which pretty much immediately means you have to validate everything else, and then it’s like well hey look here I am however many hours later, manually doing something.
Our executives keep telling us to adapt or we’ll be on the losing end. At this point, I’d just like the check please. Because if the company can survive on images of Super Mario committing 9/11, or walls of useless text or just straight up make belief, that’s something I’d like to watch from the sidelines.