Post #2158326
2025-10-09 14:04 UTC
Just encountered someone uncritically posting a screenshot of an #LLM answer to explain a #SwiftUI bug we were seeing, and it suggested a significantly disruptive workaround.
Turns out its diagnosis was completely wrong, and actual human SwiftUI experts found a very simple solution to the problem in 5 minutes.
I'm sure there are lots of people out there leveraging LLMs responsibly, but imo this is a seriously dangerous tool for non-experts who can't critically evaluate the answers.
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@jjoelson@mastodon.social 2025-10-09 14:41
I know people have always uncritically copied code from StackOverflow, but at least there you have competing answers, voting, reputation, comments, a date on the answer so you know if it's potentially out of date, etc. LLMs for answering programming questions feel like a big step backward to me.
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@FredericBronner@techhub.social 2025-10-09 16:54
@jjoelson@mastodon.social I consider any LLM like a junior developer. It has the potential to grow but I won’t make the mistake of thinking it’s the best solution without checking