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Maybe I'm not getting the point of your question. It's different in that junior programmers are still people, capable of much more than LLMs are. But yes, it's
by wpietri 4y ago
Maybe I'm not getting the point of your question. It's different in that junior programmers are still people, capable of much more than LLMs are. But yes, it's the same shortsighted executive intent.
- WalterSear 4y agoMy point is that the direction and management that you outline is as relevant to GPT as it is to a team of (sufficiently) junior developers. And, given that people find utility in Github copilot, I'm not convinced that the difference between GPT and a junior developer is qualitative rather than quantitative. Regardless of whether LLMs are demonstrating intelligence or creativity, they are already writing productive code: they aren't a hallucination.
- wpietri 4y agoIf you'd like to claim that an LLM plus a manager can produce an app just as well as a junior developer, I look forward to your demonstration of that. but even if it's true, I think it's a case I've covered in the paragraph after the one you quote.