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The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever (mander.xyz)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

It's not just the internet.

Professionals (using the term loosely) are using LLMs to draft emails and reports, and then other professionals (?) are using LLMs to summarise those emails and reports.

I genuinely believe that the general effectiveness of written communication has regressed.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I've tried using an LLM for coding - specifically Copilot for vscode. About 4 out of 10 times it will accurately generate code - which means I spend more time troubleshooting, correcting, and validating what it generates instead of actually writing code.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I feel like it's not that bad if you use it for small things, like single lines instead of blocks of code, like a glorified auto complete.

Sometimes it's nice to not use it though because it can feel distracting.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I find it most useful as a means of getting answers for stuff that have poor documentation. A couple weeks ago chatgpt gave me an answer whose keyword had no matches on Google at all. No idea where it took that from (probably some private codebase), but it worked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm glad you had some independent way to verify that it was correct. Because I've asked it stuff Google doesn't know, and it just invents plausible but wrong answers.

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