Simon Willison’s Weblog

I did find one area where LLMs absolutely excel, and I’d never want to be without them:

AIs can find your syntax error 100x faster than you can.

They’ve been a useful tool in multiple areas, to my surprise. But this is the one space where they’ve been an honestly huge help: I know I’ve made a mistake somewhere and I just can’t track it down. I can spend ten minutes staring at my files and pulling my hair out, or get an answer back in thirty seconds.

There are whole categories of coding problems that look like this, and LLMs are damn good at nearly all of them. [...]

— Luke Kanies, AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant