Yes if people have to learn how to use it. Make something that will last centuries not just a couple of decades. 700 years ago they invented double-entry method of accounting which is still used today. Relational databases were invented recently as well and will survive well past most front-end frameworks. Eventually skynet will be invented but no one believes me just like no one would have believed that aluminum tubes would be flying through the sky or enriching uranium. If before you couldn't open a winapi window, now you can do that in one sentence instruction, and you'll have a good starting point. Things are changing. Look at accounting, accountants don't even do accounting anymore, they're just QB users.
each organization handles their documents differently from everyone else. yes, interacting with humans is manual until we get rid of phone, fax, and email, and replace it with universal endpoint.
The same way you walk a dog down a street, you put a leash on that puppy. If anything goes wrong, you are responsible until we can punish LLMs. Imagine asking: how do I give myself safe access to the database? You see how ridiculous that sounds? Unless you are reading/writing every token of input and response, everything else is like playing lottery. You have to understand there is a chance it will purposefully select wrong token and generate inappropriate response which it will act on and delete your database and c folder because it felt tired for some reason because of an earlier conversation you had about it trying to get it to pretend and you didn't clear it's memory or you're missing context to have it generate good token to begin with. How do I safely swallow water?
i dont understand why these questions are so common? is it not obvious how one should use these capabilities? i compose my context in md file and send it through API. i wrote a simple lms.exe to send context and append response to the same file. why doesn't everyone else do that? i never believed in agents that compose their own context like Cursor. and i always pass the lowest reasoning value parameter to the API I can. why doesn't anyone else do this? you become dependent on a tool, you're already dependent some of you on fancy IDEs and agents. we're already dependent on top 3 vendors and openai is the only one that no one complains about from API key configuration side. you're gonna become dependent not only on LLMs but on the tooling as well? no thanks. anyone with a different opinion regarding this down to exact work flow, you are walking down the wrong path. you have to become efficient at converting electricity to text. admit it, some are just better than others while some will never get it at all. you know you won't because you know people in your life that never change their opinions about something, or always get into car accidents because they're a bad driver. you cant change these people and you might be one of them.
programming is just turning calories/energy into text. some of you are just not that efficient at it, some of you produce garbage when you do. it's only been three years, there is still low hanging fruit on the new branches.
none of you have what it takes to self host your perfect self hosting fantasy because most of you won't cooperate with others. keep waiting for that unicorn you wouldn't see standing right in front of you.
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