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Because it's too unpredictable so far. AI saves me time, but only because I could do everything it attempts to do myself. It's wrong maybe 40-50% of the time, so I can't even imagine the disasters I'm averting by recognising when it's giving me completely bonkers suggestions.
To me, that has never been more true.
Most junior dev ask GeminiPiTi to write the JavaScript code for them, whereas I ask it for explanation on the underlying model of async/await and the execution model of a JavaScript engine.
There is a similar issue when you learn piano. Your immediate wish is to play Chopin, whereas the true path is to identify,name and study all the tricks there are in his pieces of art.
>Of course, the junior + AI pairing was tempting. It looked cheaper and played into the fear that “AI will take our jobs.” Those are two different narratives. One implies that everyone will be able to code and build: "English as a programming language", etc. The other is one of those headless-chicken, apocalyptic scenarios where AI has already made (or will very shortly make) human programmers obsolete. "AI taking jo…
Once you've worked professionally, it's not so absurd. I mean, you really see to believe the extreme compromises in quality that upper management is often willing to tolerate to save a buck in the short term.
I have never heard that before
>Of course, the junior + AI pairing was tempting. It looked cheaper and played into the fear that “AI will take our jobs.” Those are two different narratives. One implies that everyone will be able to code and build: "English as a programming language", etc. The other is one of those headless-chicken, apocalyptic scenarios where AI has already made (or will very shortly make) human programmers obsolete. "AI taking jo…
i just soent some time cleaning up au code where it lied about the architecture so it wrote the wrong thing. the architecture is wonky, sure, but finding the wonks earlier would have been better
1. Unconsciously incompetent
2. Consciously incompetent
3. Consciously competent
4. Unconsciously competent
The challenge with AI, it will give you “good enough” output, without feedback loops you never move to 2,3,4 and assume you are doing ok. Hence it stunts learning. So juniors or inexperienced stay inexperienced, without knowing what they don’t know.
You have to Use it as an expert thinking partner. Tell it to ask you questions & not give you the answer.
Similarly, it takes experience to spot when the LLM is going in the wrong direction it making mistakes.
I think for supercharging a junior, it should be used more like a pair programmer, not for code generation. It can help you quickly gain knowledge and troubleshoot. But relying on a juniors prompts and guidance to get good code gen is going to be suboptimal.