They clearly are useful tools given their current capabilities. It just depends on what you’re using them for. You don’t use a screwdriver to drive nails, and you don’t go to HardwareNews to complain when your screwdriver isn’t working as a hammer.
I’m currently using them to port a client-side API SDK into multiple languages. This would be a pain in the ass time consuming task but is a breeze with LLMs because the exact behavior I want is clearly defined and relatively deterministic, and it’s also straightforward to test that I’m getting what I intend. The LLM thus gets done in 3 days what would take me 3 weeks (or more) to do by hand.
If the complaint is that it can’t do X, where X is something that would clearly require full AGI and likely true superintelligence — in this case expecting instantaneous, correct code that solves novel problems on the first try - then I have to insist that people are actually expecting Claude to be a Culture Ship Mind, implicitly. They just don’t realize that what they’re asking for his hard, which is itself a psychologically interesting fact, I suppose.
I’m currently using them to port a client-side API SDK into multiple languages. This would be a pain in the ass time consuming task but is a breeze with LLMs because the exact behavior I want is clearly defined and relatively deterministic, and it’s also straightforward to test that I’m getting what I intend. The LLM thus gets done in 3 days what would take me 3 weeks (or more) to do by hand.
If the complaint is that it can’t do X, where X is something that would clearly require full AGI and likely true superintelligence — in this case expecting instantaneous, correct code that solves novel problems on the first try - then I have to insist that people are actually expecting Claude to be a Culture Ship Mind, implicitly. They just don’t realize that what they’re asking for his hard, which is itself a psychologically interesting fact, I suppose.