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I realize I'm ragging on LLMs a lot

2025-07-03 17:40:02.880605+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

I realize I'm ragging on LLMs a lot this morning, and I want to make it clear that it's mostly because I used Gemini for programming yesterday.

And, sure, I now understand the Google Sheets runtime way way better than I did thanks to following all of those dead-ends that I wouldn't have thought to pursue otherwise, but...

It reinforces the notion that I've heard several times recently that "AI" programming assistants work better when you believe in them.

Why is left as an exercise...

[ related topics: Software Engineering Work, productivity and environment Artificial Intelligence ]

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