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As a software dev, most of the devs I know hate AI like everyone else. Perhaps more so since many of us took AI classes and understand what AI's are actually useful for.
Vibe coders are the ones ive seen love LLMs since now they cam be software developers too.
Also a software engineer that did NLP research projects in university (pre-LLM days). You can imagine how hair-pullingly stupid I think all of this is as someone that is very familiar with how these models work and are trained.
It should be blindingly obvious that this shit shouldn't be trusted with anything important, yet here we are. A little while ago I watched as one of our senior devops guys was using an LLM to execute scripts/commands for migrating a legacy production environment to a new environment, which was something that we had been meticulously planning for months as it was very complicated. But here he was, cowboying his way through it with an LLM that could have easily done a ton of damage with a single mistaken command. And we were watching this happen over a screen share.
Things did go wrong, but fortunately the problems were minor enough that we could fix it easily enough. It could have been so much worse though.