The better you are at architecting or even directing a junior developer, the better your output too. Dont let AI make decisions, its supposed to take your decisions and turn those into code. When AI makes decisions, well the unexpected outcome is always on you.

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sshine 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Dont let AI make decisions, its supposed to take your decisions and turn those into code.

I let the AI make decisions all the time. I often approve them, and I sometimes revert them. Most of the time they’re really good decisions based on my initial intent, but followed by analysis I didn’t make but agree with.

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JeremyNT 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I think there's a spectrum of where to draw the line.

There's clearly some level where you want a human making decisions for even the most vibey of project, because without some kind of a spec about what you're trying to build and what features you want you'd get nonsense.

But like... maybe don't stress the details too much.

	▲	sshine 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> clearly some level where you want a human making decisions Yes, clearly. There was a meme out there, "just make something cool idk". Statements like "Don't let AI make decisions" are made because of the loss of control we experience as mechanical parts of our work (such as writing to files) gets automated.

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pydry 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

i always found it to be easier to write code myself than to direct a junior developer.

the level of teaching involved would always mean the overall velocity of work slowed down.

some people say you can throw them the drudge work but i find that if you're doing coding right (e.g. you dont let your code base degenerate into a mess of boilerplate), there is barely any drudge work to do.

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giancarlostoro 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You're missing the real goal of directing a Junior, which is you're teaching them to be a team player, Junior devs will surpass your expectations, the rate at which they goof or are about to goof should decrease over time the more you mentor them. If you do it right, you not have a strong ally and coder under your belt, or would you rather someone else teach them their bad habits?

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CamperBob2 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

i always found it to be easier to write code myself than to direct a junior developer.

Me, too. But that doesn't mean I'm a great developer, just a shitty manager.

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cassianoleal 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Perhaps but at least when you are directing a junior developer, even if badly, you'll eventually get a non-junior developer on the other side. With an AI agent, you'll get ... what?

	▲	CamperBob2 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		With current models, you're right, there will be nothing to show for the effort except the code itself. I suspect that will change sooner or later. Models will be cultivated over time the way we cultivate full-time employees now, with an acquired awareness of what they're building, new skills picked up in the process, and insight into how the larger system works.