There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is.
If you’re not pant-peeingly excited and worried about this yet, well… you should be.
So the next one of you to complain that “you can’t trust LLM code” gets a little badge that says “Welcome to engineering motherfucker”. You’ve finally learned the secret of the trade: Don’t. Trust. Anything!
Everyone uses this now. It replaced ~everything in AI
Google did absolutely nothing with this invention, opting for violent knee-jerking later, as per their usual M.O.
OpenAI came along with ChatGPT on November 30th 2022, the first LLM-based chatbot, missing out on an obvious opportunity to call it Large Marge. Why did they not do this.