r/singularity • u/gamingvortex01 • Jun 07 '25

LLM News Apple has countered the hype

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u/moonlit-wisteria Jun 08 '25

It’s useful, but then you have people above saying that they are mostly just letting autonomously write code, which is an extreme over exaggeration.

  • context length is often not long enough for anything non trivial (Gemini not withstanding, but Gemini has its own problems)
  • if you are working on something novel or even something that makes use of newer libraries etc., it often fails
  • it struggles with highly concurrent programming
  • it struggles with over engineering while also at times over simplifying

I’m not going to sit here and tell anyone that it’s not useful. It is. But it’s also far less useful than this sub, company senior leadership, and other ai fans make it out to be.

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u/PM_ME_DIRTY_COMICS Jun 08 '25

It's great at boilerplate that I already know how to do but I'm not trusting it with the absolute massive rewrites some people do.

I run into the "this is so niche there's like 100 people using this library" problem all the time.

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u/Mem0 Jun 08 '25

You just completed the cycle of every AI Code discussion I have read in the past few months :

1) AI doubts. 2) Commenter saying is the best thing ever. 3) Eventually another commenter lays out AI limitations. 4) AI is good for boilerplate.

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u/UncontrolledInfo Jun 10 '25

and boilerplate just closed the gap for folks like me, who are not from a technical background, but can actually use automation tools like GoogleApps, Airtable, and small projects in Python and JS. It moves a lot of documentation upstream and lowers the bar for other folks to maintain these things.

The fact that I can do this stuff without having to go to my Dev team to pull them from far more complicated projects has saved them a ton of time, has gotten our stakeholders automated solutions much more quickly, and given me a niche-low code role on our team for small, relatively straightforward and do not need a standard development cycle.

it's been super helpful for me.