Comments by "" (@retagainez) on "Copilot Causes Code Churn? This Study Is Concerning..." video.

  1. AI is an abstraction ABOVE "Senior Developer" AND "short-term contractor."
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  2. The risks of code churn addressed in the video aside, there's also just the general issue of how AI tools are just boilerplate generators. They take your English-like text and generate the boilerplate (whether what they generate is code or more documentation is irrelevant), that's it. If you know how to do something but don't necessarily understand syntax or semantics of a library as a single layer of abstraction, LLMs are great. But as far as using LLMs for code design, or for creating layers of abstraction, this kind of stuff is simply way above the scope of what LLMs are currently doing.
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  3. Some companies are using training LLMs to act as RAG(s) to have a intelligent code lookup on their codebase using large language models. But it doesn't necessarily provide any intelligence like I mentioned. It's just now generating boilerplate relevant to your existing codebase. So, in a world where you have to discover what you know (or don't know), LLMs don't provide much in the way of help for the world of software world quite yet. At least not from a general perspective.
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  4. White papers are not research in the traditional sense. Sure, they have unique viewpoints but they're done by companies and there's always going to be a bias to write something which makes your company sound more favorable.
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