Post #3770890

Not sure whether you’re being sarcastic here Jesus. “Name a publicly traded company that generated significant profit as a result of buying llm services from a provider.” This at least is just a problem of relevance. Utility is not measured in money - especially for open-source non-profits like Zig - and people selling shovels and promises are obviously not the best place to look for success stories in mineral rights. But I’ve seen several Youtube channels hand-wave complicated software for devices they’ve just built from scratch. And several copyleft projects are caught in philosophical arguments against permissive rewrites with completely different code, structure, and/or programming language. And a few ultra-niche projects simply typed “rewrite this in Rust” for an order-of-magnitude speed boost. The kneejerk insistence that LLMs are never useful is wishful thinking. It’s less defensible than equally glib promises of institutional value, because even some of the people loudly distancing themselves do so because it worked. ‘I didn’t recognize my own codebase!’ Yeah, because you didn’t write it. The chatbot did. It’s not Inception-ing the experience of making it yourself; it’s inventing exactly the Github dead-end you’d like to find.