LLMs vs human

Handholding the human pays off in the long run more than hand holding the llm, which requires more hand holding anyway.

Claude doesn't get better as I explain concepts to it the same way a jr engineer does.

cjbgkagh an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I had hired 3 junior/mid lvl devs and paid them to do nothing but study to improve their skills, it was my investment in their future, I had a big project on the horizon that I needed help with. After 6 months I let them go, the improvement was far too slow. Books that should have taken a week to get through were taking 6 weeks. Since then LLM have completely surpassed them. I think it’s reasonable to think that some day, maybe soon, LLMs will surpass me. Like everyone else, I have to the best I can while I can.

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eithed 27 minutes ago | parent [-]

But this is an issue of worker you're hiring. I've worked with senior engineers who a) did nothing (as - really not write any thing within the sprint) b) worked on things they wanted to work on c) did ONLY things that they were assigned in the sprint (= if there were 10 tickets in the sprint and they were assigned 1 of these tickets then they would finish that ticket and not pick up anything else) d) worked only on tickets that have requirements explicitly stated step by step (open file a, change line 89 to be `checkBar` instead of `checkFoo`... - having to write this would take longer than doing the changes yourself as I was really writing in Jira ticket what I wanted the engineer to code, otherwise they would come back with "not enough spec, can't proceed"). All of these cases - senior people!

Sure - LLMs will do what they're told (to a specific value of "do" and "what they're told")

	▲	raw_anon_1111 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If you are a “senior” engineer who is doing nothing but pulling well defined Jira tickets off the board, you’re horribly mis titled.

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sebasvisser an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe see it less as a junior and replacement for humans. See it more as a tool for you! A tool so you can do stuff you used to delegate/dump to a junior, do now yourself.

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lupire 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Claude gets better as Claude's managers explain concepts to it. It doesn't learn the way a human does. AI is not human. The benefit is that when Claude learns something, it doesn't need to run a MOOC to teach the same things to millions of individuals. Every copy of Claude instantly knows.