Mastodon Feed: Post

Mastodon Feed

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

useful & thoughtful piece by @simon

"My current favorite mental model is to think of them as an over-confident pair programming assistant who’s lightning fast at looking things up, can churn out relevant examples at a moment’s notice and can execute on tedious tasks without complaint.

Over-confident is important. They’ll absolutely make mistakes—sometimes subtle, sometimes huge... Don’t fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing LLMs..."

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/