• Hawk@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 months ago

    The code was non trivial and relatively sophisticated. It performed statistical analysis on ingested data and the approach taken was statistically sound.

    I was replaced by that. So was my colleague.

    The job market is exceptionally tough right now and a large part of that is certainly llms.

    I think taking people with statistical training out of the equation is quite dangerous, but it’s happening. In my area, everybody doing applied mathematics, statistics or analysis has been laid off.

    In saying that, the produced program was quite good.

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      2 months ago

      Certainly sounds more interesting than my original read of it! Sorry about that, I was grumpy.

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        2 months ago

        All good man.

        I think the point is that LLMs can replace people and they are quite good.

        But they absolutely shouldn’t replace people, yet, or possibly ever.

        But that’s what’s happening and it’s a massive problem because it’s leading to mediocre code in important spaces.