We’re coming up on a year since the general availability of public LLM’s which are supposed to make everyone master coders. Where are all the amazing new apps in the App Store that have been created by just describing what you want to “AI?”
I see people on X almost every day claiming that they just tell an LLM what do, and they let it run for an hour, and then they tell it something else to do, all day long. Meanwhile, I have to very carefully describe what I want, correct it over several more prompts, let it work, and then clean up what it did. There’s value in that, but the breathless hype over LLM capabilities is constantly confounding me. I just don’t see it myself.
Don’t get me wrong: It’s highly useful. It’s Google and Stack Overflow on steroids. On the other hand, it has to be, at this point, because Google and Microsoft have utterly broken their search engines in favor of it.