Yes, why do you ask?

AJRF a day ago | parent | next [-]

I see a lot of enthusiasm from people who work alone or who have total control over a project and nothing but abject misery from people who work in a professional setting with a group of people using coding models.

I'm just building some data points.

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sceptic123 a day ago | parent | next [-]

It's a learning curve, but it can work, you just need to be comfortable with large (and likely quite negative) reviews for the inevitable large MRs that will get generated.

The important things to get right are the same as they were before though. Work from well refined stories that are not too broad in scope. Ensure you have enough good acceptance criteria that will help prove that the code works as intended.

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simonw a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't work with a large team, so I don't personally experience the hell of coworkers dumping thousands of lines of unreviewed slop on me.

(I get a bit of exposure to that from my open source projects but it's much easier to close or ignore those.)

	▲	AJRF a day ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks for answering in good faith. Yeah so unverified PR's is super annoying, but people using LLMs to answer things incorrectly they could look at themselves is a big issue too. I often hear this get dismissed along the lines of "oh you didn't context engineer hard enough" - but the default state of the model is to very confidently state a thing to be true when it hasn't searched correctly. That is a trait of a very junior engineer - one who, if they never learned to fix this behaviour would be fired. It seems objectively _worse_ than what we had before - trained engineers who gained wisdom over a long time horizon and had a reputation they'd lose if they kept incorrectly stating things.

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mastermage a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I think he is saying this in reference to this: "If you can reduce a problem to a clearly verifiable end state, provide the necessary context [...]"

Which for reference i am not an engineer but a Physicist is literally one of the things we make jokes about for engineers. Not that we are much better in that regard as a verfiable end state in Physics is like realy realy dificult to get so is the necessary context.

	▲	simonw a day ago \| parent [-]
		I don't mean to imply that was easy! I think it's hard, and a skill that needs active investment. It's one of the reasons I'm not afraid for my career.