I'm not a 'programmer'. At best, I'm a hacker, at best. I don't work in a team. All my code is mostly one time usage to just get some little thing done, sometimes a bit of personal stuff too. I mostly use Excel anyways, and then python, and even then, I hate python because half the time I'm just dealing with library issues (not a joke, I measured it (and, no, I'm not learning another language, but thank you)). I'm in biotech, a very non code-y section of it too.
LLMs are just a life saver. Literally.
They take my code time down from weeks to an afternoon, sometimes less. Any they're kind.
I'm trying to write a baseball simulator on my own, as a stretch goal. I'm writing my own functions now, a step up for me. The code is to take in real stats, do Monte Carlo, get results. Basic stuff. Such a task was impossible for me before LLMs. I've tried it a few times. No go. Now with LLMs, I've got the skeleton working and should be good to go before opening day. I'm hoping that I can use it for some novels that I am writing to get more realistic stats (don't ask).
I know a lot of HN is very dismissive of LLMs as code help. But to me, a non programmer, they've opened it up. I can do things I never imagined that I could. Is it prod ready? Hell no, please God no. But is it good enough for me to putz with and get just working? Absolutely.
I've downloaded a bunch of free ones from huggingface and Meta just to be sure they can't take them away from me. I'm never going back to that frustration, that 'Why can't I just be not so stupid?', that self-hating, that darkness. They have liberated me.
LLMs are just a life saver. Literally.
They take my code time down from weeks to an afternoon, sometimes less. Any they're kind.
I'm trying to write a baseball simulator on my own, as a stretch goal. I'm writing my own functions now, a step up for me. The code is to take in real stats, do Monte Carlo, get results. Basic stuff. Such a task was impossible for me before LLMs. I've tried it a few times. No go. Now with LLMs, I've got the skeleton working and should be good to go before opening day. I'm hoping that I can use it for some novels that I am writing to get more realistic stats (don't ask).
I know a lot of HN is very dismissive of LLMs as code help. But to me, a non programmer, they've opened it up. I can do things I never imagined that I could. Is it prod ready? Hell no, please God no. But is it good enough for me to putz with and get just working? Absolutely.
I've downloaded a bunch of free ones from huggingface and Meta just to be sure they can't take them away from me. I'm never going back to that frustration, that 'Why can't I just be not so stupid?', that self-hating, that darkness. They have liberated me.