Just had the opportunity to test GPT 5 as a coding assistant in Copilot for VS Code, which in my opinion is the only legitimately useful purpose for LLMs.
The best use of LLM sadly is to use it on social media to spread disinformation. At that point making shit up isn’t a big but a feature.
For coding I am still not sold on it. It seems to excel on tasks that were done millions of times like programming assignments at school, example/tutorial code, interview questions.
For me while it helps in stone cases, I still have to go over the code and understand it and very often it introduces subtle bugs or I can write a more concise chose that fits my need. In those cases all the advantages it did are nullified, I suspect it might actually be slowing me down.
It feels to me that LLM is a godsend to all the coders that previously copied code from stack overflow. It greatly streamlined the process and also included all code published on GitHub.
The best use of LLM sadly is to use it on social media to spread disinformation. At that point making shit up isn’t a big but a feature.
For coding I am still not sold on it. It seems to excel on tasks that were done millions of times like programming assignments at school, example/tutorial code, interview questions.
For me while it helps in stone cases, I still have to go over the code and understand it and very often it introduces subtle bugs or I can write a more concise chose that fits my need. In those cases all the advantages it did are nullified, I suspect it might actually be slowing me down.
It feels to me that LLM is a godsend to all the coders that previously copied code from stack overflow. It greatly streamlined the process and also included all code published on GitHub.