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Skilled Coders Are Still Crucial in the Age of AI

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This post, written by Elder Prince, falls under my behind-the-scenes micro-updates—it’s here to keep you in the loop between major releases.

Just a quick thought. Right now, I think a developer still needs to be an experienced coder to work effectively with generative Large Language Model tools (aka LLM, or A.I.). I often have to fix errors made by the bot, and sometimes the output doesn’t even make sense. It hallucinates, in new AI jargon. Not complaining though—I really love using ChatGPT! It’s been a huge help in my ongoing progress. The generated code can be a great starting point and a powerful automation tool

I tend to think that independent workers like me benefit more from tools like ChatGPT than big corporations do. It’s a huge gamble for them. Imagine the millions ($$$) they could lose if subtle yet critical errors slip through, the AI continuously fails to follow proper logic without a fix, and they’ve already let go of most of their skilled human employees…

Generative LLM tools can do great things, but only when driven by passionate humans. Well, that’s my take on this topic.

That’s why I still feel the need to sharpen my skills and continue writing my own code.

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    Working with ChatGPT today wasn’t fun. The LLM agent was really dumb. I headed over to Reddit to see if others were having the same issue. Here’s what a few commenters had to say:

    “Oh im not going crazy then. It degraded a lot, forgetting import, missing line in function when you ask for edit. And this suddent obsession to put emoji everywhere in the code comments.”

    “Yeah, I agree, OpenAi claim themself are running out of GPU, so its understandable that they would need to reduce cost for 4o, because that model is common for both paid and free users”

    “I heard this last week as they were running up to the release of 4.5. GPUs were being pulled from 4o to support 4.5, new GPUs weren’t arriving fast enough to both populate 4.5 and replace the ones pulled from 4o. The word was they’d repopulate 4o after 4.5 was up to demand.”

    “i also noticed a decrease in performance shortly before and after 4.5 release. Thought it was just me.”

    “Doing financial work right now and mine can’t even find the earliest and latest dates in a column nor will it place new information into columns that are already present without creating a new row no matter how much I explicitly tell it to not make duplicates”

    “at some point it just runs out of ideas and starts regurgitating, going in loops, and if you push it harder it’s like it gets overwhelmed (almost like a human stressed out and getting anxious) and even can start hallucinating commands etc”

    Mm. That’s why it’s important to keep honing our skills and not rely entirely on AI. When issues like this happen, the only way to keep moving forward is to rely on our own expertise, so nothing holds us back.

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