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tossandthrow 2 hours ago

What theory is that?

My experience is the absolute opposite. I am much more in control of quality with Ai agents.

I am never letting junior to midlevels into my team again.

In fact, I am not sure I will allow any form of manual programming in a year or so.

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MeetingsBrowser 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I am never letting junior to midlevels into my team again

Exactly. You control the quality of the people in your team. You can train, fire, hire, etc until you get the skill level you want.

You have effectively no control over the quality of the output from an LLM. You get what the frontier labs give you and must work with that.

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tossandthrow an hour ago | parent [-]

That is not correct.

It is much easier to control quality of an Ai than of inexperienced developers.

	▲	MeetingsBrowser 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I think we are talking past each other. > I am never letting junior to midlevels into my team again My point is, you control the experience level of the engineers on your team. The fact that you can say you won't let junior or midlevels on your team proves that. You do not have that level of control with LLMs. Anthropic and OpenAI are roughly the same quality at any given time. The rest are not useful.

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DrJokepu 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Eh. You want a good mix of experience levels, what really matters is everyone should be talented. Less experienced colleagues are unburdened by yesterday’s lessons that may no longer be relevant today, they don’t have the same blind spots.

Also, our profession is doomed if we won’t give less experienced colleagues a chance to shine.

	▲	tossandthrow an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Our profession is likely doomed not because we don't train people, but by the lack of demand