“And as a result of this, I would say I’m at least 50% faster at writing code for both my research projects and my side projects as a result of these models.”
Nicholas Carlini never owned a bitcoin and calls himself a skeptic of all claims. He still says LLMs make him at least 50% faster at writing code, mostly by teaching him new tools and doing his boring chores. His long list of examples is under 2% of his actual uses. One skeptic’s stopwatch beats a vendor’s demo. It is still one stopwatch.