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As far as I know, LLMs are a genuine boost for junior developers, but still not close to what senior/principal engineers get up to.
by red_admiral 2y ago
As far as I know, LLMs are a genuine boost for junior developers, but still not close to what senior/principal engineers get up to.
- _heimdall 2y agoIt'd be interesting to know how much of Google's code is written by junior engineers. I can't imagine 25% of the code is from juniors, at which point Google's CEO is either exaggerating what he considers LLM-generated code or more than just juniors are using it. I agree with your take though, it does seem helpful to juniors but not beyond that (yet), and this OP stat seems dubious unless juniors are doing a big portion of the work.
- makestuff 2y agoI have around 7 YOE, and I have found LLMs useful for very specific questions about syntax whenever I am working in a new language. For example, I needed to write some typescript recently and asked it how can I make a type that does X. It is not as good with questions about API documentation for popular java libraries though and it will just hallucinate APIs/method names. If I ask it a generic question like "how can I create a class in Java to invoke this API and store the data in this database" it is pretty useless. I'm sure I could spend more time giving it a better prompt but at that point I can just write the code myself. Overall they are a better search engine for stackoverflow, but the LLMs are not really helping me code 30% faster or whatever the latest claim is.