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Where’s the line drawn here?
Like I never like to label all X as Y for a start, but if you own a Porsche are you a wanker? I own a Mercedes
I amam I a wanker?Is it sports car with little utility? I have many things that make me happy with little utility.
Edit: Removed the Freudian slip 😦
Here is a rewrite of this stream of consciousness that an LLM helped with which might be more palatable. I am neurodivergent and stream of consciousness is my bag, writing isn’t. So LLMs have massive utility for here.
I get where you’re coming from, but honestly, that’s not been my experience at all. I’ve used LLMs both at home and at work, and while they’re not magic, they’re absolutely useful—especially if you already know what you’re doing and want to skip the repetitive or boilerplate stuff.
At home, for example, I set up a Docker-based media server. I’ve done it before, but using the LLM meant I didn’t have to dive into docs or endless Google threads. It saved time and frustration.
At work, we use an internal tool powered by an LLM to generate the standard boilerplate we always need in enterprise apps. So when we add a new model in C#, it auto-generates the typical queries, mutations, GraphQL setup, and React admin pages. Just saving that hour or so per model adds up—on a project with 30+ models, that’s a whole week of dev time. And since it caches results unless the model changes, it’s fast and reliable (though yeah, sometimes it messes up the DB table file and we rerun it).
It’s also great for common patterns—like useMemo for filtering dropdowns in React. I can write it manually or copy it from somewhere else, but why not just add a comment like // filtered clients and let it handle it? Same with array sorting. I know how, but my time is better spent on the harder stuff.
And that’s the key point: LLMs free up brain space. They don’t replace learning or experience. I had to integrate with Sage using the Intacct SDK recently—had no clue where to start. The LLM helped me explore the API, figure out how to get Reporting Periods, Nominals, etc., and build a small test app. Once I understood it, then I integrated it into the product.
It accelerates my learning, and my boss—who is ridiculously smart and built this whole system—can spend his time on the harder problems instead of walking me through step-by-step. Even he uses LLMs, and if someone of his calibre is doing that, I see no reason not to.
LLMs aren’t doing the work for me. They’re just making me more efficient, especially on the stuff I already know how to do. And they help me ramp up quicker when learning something new.
I don’t have this experience really. So at home I used it to help me setup my docker based media server, but the key is I’ve done it before and it was to save me from Google hell and reading docs. Works like a charm now.
At work, as I said earlier my boss is like a savant, and did great open source work on BSD back in day. The tool he built for us which uses LLM is more boilerplate based.
So we have conventions as we make enterprise software. So when we add a new model in C# we are going to create the same missions and queries every time. We are also going to use the same structure for the GraphQL layer and again a lot of the same routes for Typescript react. For instance if we have a new model for TransactionType, the we need an admin screen for listing these, editing/creating one and deleting (which shocking for me is just Archived = 1).
So now I add the model and the fields and the OnModelCreating rules. I then hit generate and everything else is done. We also using caching to avoid hitting the LLM again if nothing has changed. This alone saves an hour or so for every model we create. If a project has 33 models that’s over a weeks dev time saved. I just need to run the app to get the schema and copy it over and run GraphQL to generate types. Now don’t get me wrong sometimes it shits the bed and we just run it again. For instance it will regularly just fail on the db table def file(forget the file name now ).
Then there is the simple time saving stuff. Like we use useMemo a hell of a lot. So if we have a Client dropdown and a Campaign drop down and I want to filter the Campaigns based on Campaign.ClientId then sure I can write it every time, I can go grab it from another file. Or I can write a comment like // Filtered clients and boom it’s done and it’s done based no the current project and how we do things.
The same for sorting things, sure I know how to sort arrays but why should I waste brain capacity on this when LLM is more than capable.
Your last point is spot on and although it’s only been two years, this is something I am better at. I look back at old projects like man I was an idiot or naive back then.
The same is true for actually taking a step back when getting data and planning for the futures as on my first project as it went to real world use it started getting progressively slower on certain screens as the data loaded was built with the dev environment in mind with no thought to 1 year down the line. So it’s not like LLMs are hindering my progress in these areas.
I guess what I’m always trying to convey in these posts is that people are not out here asking an LLzm to do X and then just planting that in a project and leave it at that. If I don’t know how to do something, like recently I need to integrate an app with Sage using Intracct SDK and I have no fucking idea, so I’ll get the LLM to show me how do I get Reporting Periods, Nominals, Transactions etc. then I’ll use what I learn in a console app to play around and work on getting and setting data. Then I’m ready to implement into the product. My boss charges £2000-2500 an hour for his time so to not have to spend more time showing me how to do something he could whip up in an afternoon gives him time to work on the higher skill tasks and allows me to learn at a faster rate than I could before. Sure I could read the docs, but that’s what the LLM will do if you point it to them and it’s quicker than me and will frequently point out things I didn’t even consider.
Then if I still don’t know whether I understand what it told me I’m speak with the boss and he’ll immediately say yeah that’s bang on or that’s one way but I would do this and then explain his reasoning. Like I can’t understate that this man is a damn savant and if he is happy to use LLMs as a tool then I have no grounds to object t as this guy is of the level he could build his own just for fun. Like many times I asked him stuff in passing and responses just blow me away and sometimes I just have to accept dude is way smarter than me and I’ll just never get certain concepts.
Like I can’t understate ask something completely obscure about how operating systems are made and I’m getting a full lecture on how to build on os and how they work.
Finally he’s also the nicest person I’ve Denver worked for. We come first work is second. He’s amazing with my neurodivergence and neuroticism, sickness etc. I have PTSD (hyperbole) from previous bosses that it still feels surreal when he always does the right thing.
Edit: if this is effort to read then I’ve added a reply to it with it fixed by an LLM to be more coherent and palatable.
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Thoughts on Liam O'Hanna being charged with terrorism offences for brandishing a Hezbollah flag?
This is great. Appreciate you taking the time. I’m in no state to read these right now, had surgery with a GA today, but I’ve added them to my reading list.
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Thoughts on Liam O'Hanna being charged with terrorism offences for brandishing a Hezbollah flag?
Any sources for me to learn more about this? Not doubting but also curious.
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Thoughts on Liam O'Hanna being charged with terrorism offences for brandishing a Hezbollah flag?
The thing that is up is Israeli lobbyists are pushing hard for this.
Edit: GA hit me hard and this made no sense when I read it back so edited.
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Thoughts on Liam O'Hanna being charged with terrorism offences for brandishing a Hezbollah flag?
Because it gets attention on the issue? I don’t really know you’d have to ask him.
I don’t care that he did it, I care that people and government are more outraged over this than literal tens of thousands of dead innocents. And that we support genocide as a country.
Furthermore, I’m not sure I feel comfortable calling a resistence group terrorists if we don’t give the IDF the same label.
Are we going to arrest the Brits who went to fight for the IDF.
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Thoughts on Liam O'Hanna being charged with terrorism offences for brandishing a Hezbollah flag?
I do too.
Are Hezbollah any worse than Israel? I believe we should label Israel a terrorist state. If we don’t do that then I see Hezbollah as a resistance group.
How can you fight oppression if you have to stick to the rules lest you be labelled a terrorist.
I don’t think Liam is an asshole and it’s deplorable that he is held to a higher standard than others. How many brits have gone to Gaza to help the IDF literally kill people, but this guy fly a flag an is charged. Fuck Israeli lobbying for the to happen.
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Thoughts on Liam O'Hanna being charged with terrorism offences for brandishing a Hezbollah flag?
Do you not believe that sometime when fighting terrorism (coming from the IDF and settlers) that it stands to reason that you have to so terrible things yourself, lest you just get wiped out.
How would we feel about the Iraqi government locking people up for flying the American or UK flag during our illegal invasion. We could have been labelled as terrorists for those actions.
I’m not saying I’m right here, but I’m incredibly frustrated and on the verge of doing something serious as I don’t know what else to do. I educate my ignorant friends, I protest, I write to my local officials etc.
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Thoughts on Liam O'Hanna being charged with terrorism offences for brandishing a Hezbollah flag?
Indeed. I kind of feel powerless against this slippery slope.
It’s made me a 10x developer.
As someone who transitioned form Junior to Dev as we embraced LLMs. Our company saved that much time that we all got a pay rise with a reduction in hours to boot.
Sick of all this anti LLM rhetoric when it’s a tool to aid you. People out here thinking we just ask ChatGPT and copy and paste. Which isn’t the case at all.
It helps you understand topics much quicker, can review code, read documentation, etc.
My boss is the smartest person I’ve ever met in my life and has an insane cv in the dev and open source world. If he is happy to integrate it in our work then I’m fine with it. After all we run a highly successful business with many high profile clients.
Edit: love the downvotes that don’t explain themselves. Like I’m not earning more money for doing less hours and productivity has increased. Feel like many of the haters of LLMs don’t even work in the bloody industry. 😂
No I don’t think I will.
The fuck are you?! You either put across a point as to why you object to my comment or you go eat a bag of dicks.
Good vibes is what makes life bearable so I appreciate those my friend.
Yeah I’m not really here for therapy, just needed to get that out I guess.
Clearly I do need to talk to someone, but that’s a scary thing and not cheap.
This is how my gym describes bouldering
What is bouldering?
One of the most common climbing questions we are asked
Bouldering is a style of climbing free from the use of ropes. Taking place above our state-of-the-art matting, climbers are free to express themselves on hundreds of climbs (called problems) for all abilities.
Feel free to check out their website to see if you notice any regional differences.
Interesting. It seems definitions are never static and evolve, particularly as a sport becomes more mainstream.
100%, but sadly many people, myself included didn’t get that and actively grew up in terrible environments.
I guess that’s what happens when you mum is 18 when you’re born. You’re being raised by a kid that didn’t make the best choices and the cycle continues. Although I don’t and won’t have children.
This is why school should be empowered to do more as that place is literally the only place you’re learning how to be a person and get ready for life.
I saw my dad beat my mum up. Been in the house when he tried to drive the car into the house but got stuck in the privits.
I’ve seen my mum attack my dad with a frying pan and witness my tea be dunked on her head. Or my dad go to prison for drunk driving.
Spent my entire pre high school childhood sat in the back of a car as my mum would berate the different men in her life, to her best friend.
Spent the following years seeing my mum psychologically bully my dad and he would be sat down stairs crying at night.
Is it little wonder that when people grow up like this and with ADHD that they might be hard to reach in school and that they are withdrawn.
I want to say that life’s hard and I don’t blame my family for the shit I grew up because they were young and not ready for life themselves as they had shit lives too. We were fed, went on holidays, and were richer than most of my council estate (I grew up there too) friends, but we didn’t get stability, love, or encouragement which is sad.
Like this is the tip of the iceberg of what shit I’ve seen growing up or some of the fucked up shit they dragged me into, being the eldest. I have two younger brothers and we are all fucked up in different ways but I’m by far the worst (as society would say) in every metric like wages, progress in life etc.
Edit: Looking introspectively I am thinking I’ve got unresolved issues for all this shit to just come out my finger tips on Lemmy 😂
Edit: Reflecting on this a little more, it’s annoying when people like dude I replied to say it’s the parents job. Like no shit dude, but what do you do when the parent fails the child, just leave it at that and say to the kid sorry mate, but it’s your mums fault but good luck in life. It’s the same kind of thing where people say the parents should feed the child so the school doesn’t have to, this just leaves hungry fucking kids.
Painkillers have kicked in now, but I really do want to continue this discussion so I’ll make this as unread and respond tomorrow when I can give your reply the time it deserves and I can be somewhat coherent.
I do apologise for the LLM version, it was in no way because I think you’re stupid and more because I know I have a tendency to digress and in the past that hasn’t been received well so my intention was to have something where the writing style isn’t going to turn people off from the thoughts I’m trying to convey.
Have a nice evening and I’ll hit you with a reply tomorrow. 😊.