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What matters here is the communication overhead not how long between responses. If I’m indefinitely spending more time handholding a jr dev than they save me eventually I just fire em, same with code gen.

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djmips a day ago | parent [-]

A big difference is that the jr. dev is learning compared to the AI who is stuck at whatever competence was baked in from the factory. You might be more patient with the jr if you saw positive signs that the handholding was paying off.

	▲	Retric a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That was my point, though I may not have been clear. Most people do get better over time, but for those who don’t (or LLM’s) it’s just a question of if their current skills are a net benefit. I do expect future AI to improve. My expectation is it’s going to be a long slow slog just like with self driving cars etc, but novel approaches regularly turn extremely difficult problems into seemingly trivial exercises.
	▲	dughnut a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I would be more patient with an AI that only costs me a fraction of a cent an hour.