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Revenge of the Junior Developer
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Re: Revenge of the Junior Developer
#92Everyone: telling me how great AI is. No one: making anything great with AI. Sourcegraph: an AI company, routinely promoting their LLM-optimism blogposts to HN, perpetuating the hype cycle their business model depends on.
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Re: Revenge of the Junior Developer
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe there's a different universe out there, where the code you write is not expected to work, so you can poke the LLM for a whole day to see if it barfs something out. I spend much of the day reading and thinking and only a small portion actually writing code, because when I'm typing, I usually have a hypothetical solution that is 99% correct and I'm just bringing it to life. Or I'm refactoring. You can interrupt m…
I agree with the spirit of the argument, but I don’t think you’re taking into account the scale of “typing” we’re talking about now. For example, yesterday I needed a parser for a mini-language. I wrote a grammar — actually not even the formal grammar, just some examples — and what I wanted the AST to look like. I said “write the tokenizer”, and it did. I told it to tweak a few things and write tests. It did. I told…
"add tests and do some tweaks"
there's the snake in the grass - you're asking the LLM to write tests after the code is generated, so naturally, it will write passing tests - including tests which enforce buggy behavior
if not now, then you're lucky; watch out for next time.
Re: Revenge of the Junior Developer
#94Everyone: telling me how great AI is. No one: making anything great with AI. Sourcegraph: an AI company, routinely promoting their LLM-optimism blogposts to HN, perpetuating the hype cycle their business model depends on.
It's the opposite. Most people are not are boasting about their productivity improvements but it's everywhere. Unless you work at a company where you're not allowed to use these tools it should be impossible to miss. Even the most hardcore naysayers I know are now using AI tools. The new discourse is whether the massive increase in code output leads to issues or not (I think it does), but claiming it doesn't happen i…
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