@p @judgedread I keep in touch with two programmers I worked with in my previous existence - one working for a medical insurance company you have heard of, the other a state employee.

The state employee is of the "AI's are useless garbage and will never be useful camp. He laughs at people using them and calls them retarded.

The one working for the medical insurance company uses Claw in place of his old personal code library to generate functions and then un-retards them for his personal use - basically, he considers it a replacement for grabbing something already written and repurposing it.

I suspect that's the strength of LLM's at the moment - in the hands of people who are subject matter experts. You can use them as slaves to generate chunks you might normally spend an hour on. If you can't code, you're going to probably end up with something that "works" but it going to get absolutely fucking pwned the second it goes live.

I think of an AI as a super search engine. But it hallucinates enough that if you're not up on the source material, it will fuck you over REALLY bad.

This is why I call it "Gimp-slave."

"Gimp-slave - go give me the 2nd edition stats on a Blue Dragon"
"Gimp-slave - go get me the Ancient Cave loot list for Lufia II."
"Gimp-slave - find me a GBA shoulder micro-switch and give me a link."
"Gimp-slave - generate me a...."

It can be trusted with menial jobs if you know how to guide it and know enough about the subject matter to see when it's gone more insane than the Missiles in Dark Star.

I suspect it will become more powerful - and the damage it can cause in the hands of the inept will increase as well.