Not having to think any more 🧠

I'm not a big LLM user/fan but I'm not here to bash it. I'm going to talk about how other people use it.

My colleague is an experienced dev, but he's not confident. I know he can do it, but he's not so sure. He doesn't vibe code, but he verifies everything with a chatbot. The bot helped him write the design document and the code for the project we're working on, and it verifies his changes. He trusts the bot and believes what it says. So when I ask why something was done a certain way, the answer is "the bot said". If I ask for more, he asks the bot again and sends me a transcript. The explanation hasn't passed through his mind at all!

Another colleague added a README to a git repo. It looked copy/pasted, so I asked him where he got it from. Yes, a chatbot. He was convinced that the bot wrote better documentation than a human, even when I pointed out the parts that were obviously wrong. I said that if we could auto-generate it, why save it in a readme file? His answer was that if we could auto-generate documentation, why do we need the existing documentation that's in a wiki? Wow! Management said they wanted project documentation in our wiki, not readme files, but the following day he liked it so much that did it again on another repo.

My view remains that we shouldn't call it AI because it's not intelligent. But my colleagues don't see it like that.

Here's the future. We no longer need to learn or understand or even think. We just ask a chatbot.

#LLMchatBot

#future

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