I've never seen someone put having a high number of junior engineers in a positive light. Maybe with LLMs it's different? I've worked at companies where you would have one senior manage 3-5 juniors and the code was completely unmaintainable. I've done plenty of mentoring myself and producing quality code through other people's inexperienced hands has always been incredibly hard. I wince when I think about having to manage juniors that have access to LLMs, not to mention just LLMs themselves.

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XenophileJKO 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah.. now you are asking the right questions. If you can't handle 3-5 junior engineers.. then yes, you likely can't get 10-20x speed from an LLM.

However if you can quickly read code, see and succintly communicate the more optimal solution, you can easily 10x-20x your ability to code.

I'm begining to believe it may primarily come down to having the vocabulary and linguistic ability to succintly and clearly state the gaps in the code.

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fzeroracer 17 hours ago | parent [-]

> However if you can quickly read code, see and succintly communicate the more optimal solution, you can easily 10x-20x your ability to code.

Do you believe you've managed to solve the most common wisdom in the software engineering industry? That reading code is much harder than writing it? If you have, then you should write up a white paper for the rest of us to follow.

Because every time I've seen someone say this, it's from someone that doesn't actually read the code they're reviewing.

	▲	XenophileJKO 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Harder maybe, slower.. no.