You're right that there are a new group of coders that are coming in, which is opening its own new can of worms. However, even experienced coders are still producing slop. The difference between slop and quality seems to be how much you baby the LLM, carefully pay attention to its outputs and its behavior, and stringently test everything produced. The more auto-pilot, the worse the result. The larger the code-base, the worse the result. LLMs are death by a thousand cuts unless you take the effort to manually comb through and remove the tech debt at checkpoints.

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reverius42 3 days ago | parent [-]

My mental model of "Claude is a 19 year old intern who never gets tired but is very overconfident" never fails.

Would you hand off some of your well defined tasks to your diligent 19 year old intern? Sure! Would you check their work? Of course!

Would you hand off all of a major tech company to be entirely built by interns? Of course not!

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tonyedgecombe 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord:

I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage.

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andrei_says_ 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Stupid but industrious and prolific. Also very confident.

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estimator7292 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Sounds exactly like every 19 year old programmer. I'd describe myself at 19 in exactly the same way

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reverius42 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

But still more skilled at the creation of software, from a well scoped natural language description, than perhaps 99% of humans.

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		My dentist is more skilled at dentistry than 99.999% of humans. Why would I want to replace her with a machine which is more skilled than 99% of non dentists but 1000 times worse by an educated experienced dentist?