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If people would be as patient and inventive to teach junior devs as they are with llms the whole industry would be better of.
The vilification of juniors and the abandonment of the idea that teaching and mentoring are worthwhile are single-handedly making me speedrun burnout. May a hundred years of Microsoft Visio befall anybody who thinks that way.
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Who or what will review the 5 PRs (including their updates to automated tests)? If it's just yet another agent, do we need 5 of these reviews for each PR too? In the end, you either concede control over 'details' and just trust the output or you spend the effort and validate results manually. Not saying either is bad.
If you can define your problem well then you can write tests up front. An ML person would call tests a "verifier". Verifiers let you pump compute into finding solutions.
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I think it's actually even worse: it's easier to trick yourself into thinking you're teaching yourself anything. Learning comes from grinding and LLMs are the ultimate anti-intellectual-grind machines. Which is great for when you're not trying to learn a skill!
>>Learning comes from grinding Says who? While “grinding” is one way to learn something, asking AI for a detailed explanation and actually consuming that knowledge with the intent to learn (rather than just copy and pasting) is another way. Yes, you should be on guard since a lot of what it says can be false, but it’s still a great tool to help you learn something. It doesn’t completely replace technical blogs, books…
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The thing is, Claude Code only works if you have the plan. It’s impossible to use it on the API, and it makes me wonder if $100/month is truly enough. I use it all day every day now, and I must be consuming a whole lot more than my $100 is worth.
One thing that I am not liking about the LLM world is that it seems to be tilting several things back in favor of BigCorps. The open source world is one where antirez, working on his own off in Sicily, could create a project like Redis and then watch it snowball as people all over got involved. Needing a subscription to something only a large company can provide makes me unhappy. We'll see if "can be run locally" mod…
The terminal really is sort of the perfect interface for an LLM; I wonder whether this approach will become favored over the custom IDE integrations.
It can even debug my k8s cluster using kubectl commands and check prometheus over the API, how awesome is this?
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You pay junior devs way way way more money for the privilege of them being bad. And since they're human, the juniors themselves do not have the patience of an LLM. I really would not want to be a junior dev right now... Very unfair and undesirable situation they've landed in.
Maybe it's the senior devs who should be the ones to worry? Seniors' attitudes on HN are often quick to dismiss AI assisted coding as something that can't replace the hard-earned experience and skill they've built up during their careers. Well maybe, maybe not. Senior devs can get a bit myopic in their specializations. Whereas a junior Dev doesn't have so much baggage, maybe the fertile brains of youth are better in…
One definition of experience[0] is:
direct observation of or participation in events as a basis of knowledge
One might as well assert an MS-Word document template can produce a novel Shakespearean play or that a spreadsheet is an IRS auditor.
> Or maybe the whole senior/junior thing is a red herring and pure coding and tech skills are being deflated all across the board. Perhaps what is needed now is an entirely new skill set that we're only just starting to grasp.
For a repudiation of this hypothesis, see this post[1] also currently on HN.
0 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/experience
1 - https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/why-generative-ai-codin...
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You can definitely use Claude Code via the API
I think he means it's not economically sound to use it via API
He uses two max plans ($200/mo + $200/mo) and his API estimate was north of $10,000/mo