I find them very helpful. I use gemini regularly for multiply things.
I also believe that whatever code researchers and other non software engineers wrote before coding agents, were similiar shitty but took them a lot longer to write.
Like do you know how many researchers need to do some data analysis and hack around code because they never learned programming? So so many. If they know how to verify their data (which they needed to know before already), a LLM helps them already.
There is also plenty of other code were perfection doesn't matter. Non SaaS software exists.
For security experts, we just saw whats happening. The curl inventor mentioned it online that the newest AI reports for Security issues are real and the amount of security gaps found are real and a lot of work.
Image generation is very good and you can see it today already everywere. From cheap restaurants using it, to invitations, whatsapp messages, social media, advertising.
I have a work collegue, who is in it for 6 years and he studied, he is so underqualified if you give me his salary as tokens today, i wouldn't think for a second to replace him.
I don't particularly care about coding and didn't weigh in on it. There is no dispute that people debate if it is effective at that. You can take that debate up with them, not me.
Companies are starting this year with an agentic layer. We will see how this will affect broader areas
Yeah and every year before there was another poster telling me the next model iteration would be enough.
The problem here is the adoption curve; Right now it might feel to you that its not worth it or not happening as it might for most people.
Than suddenly one model update moves it from 80% to 85% and now 30% of the market wants to use it.
Then it might be already too late to act like using it to your advantage, being a valuable expert or deciding things long term based on the new state of affairs.
You're in denial and this is cope. The tools aren't even close. The notion that any model is 5% away from doing what has been promised *FOR YEARS* is just facially ridiculous.
>Then it might be already too late to act like using it to your advantage, being a valuable expert or deciding things long term based on the new state of affairs.
There's no universe where this is happening. The tools just are not that good. It's been years of folks like you telling me my job will disappear, but the only thing that this has demonstrated is that the vast majority programmers have *NO IDEA* what other people actually do for a living and how they do it.