re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

And yet there was a UC gathering a while back, I posted about it here, where a CompSci prof thought using LLMs was a good thing in the CS classroom.

The other profs on stage also seemed to be pro LLM.

I think they are all just trying to be popular with their students, and the corporate funders of research.

It saves me a bunch of time. Has essentially replaced stack overflow. If you paste in a couple of your functions as examples it will adopt your style. It’s pretty good at automating writing tests (which I hate doing, but realize they’re needed). It’s pretty good at analyzing error traces.

It’s far from perfect, but I find that it’s an extremely useful tool that makes me more productive.