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Why (Senior) Engineers Struggle to Build AI Agents

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Re: Why (Senior) Engineers Struggle to Build AI Agents

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Post by Lsoskans »

Bringing determinism to a non deterministic world is basically the entire story of the human advancement. We require determinism.

AI is more of a new raw material instead of a new tool for humans. It’s our job to make it deterministic. “Pull the slot machine lever again” isn’t great advice (unless you work for a company that makes money off those lever pulls like the author).

Re: Why (Senior) Engineers Struggle to Build AI Agents

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Post by karmakurtisaani »

kburman wrote: post #3

I don't know why you would say juniors handle this better. From what I've seen, juniors who ship fast often do so by ignoring domain complexity and testing against a single "happy path" prompt. Seniors take longer because they are actually trying to understand the domain and cover edge cases. Speed isn't a metric of success if the feature is half-baked and breaks the moment a user deviates from the test case.

Juniors are juniors because they haven't yet struggled with mistakes of their own creation. In a few years we should see some pretty strong senior engineers emerging.
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