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Fair enough. For what it's worth, I've always thought that the more reasonable claim is that AI tools make poor-average developers more productive, not necessar
by pdabbadabba 1y ago
Fair enough. For what it's worth, I've always thought that the more reasonable claim is that AI tools make poor-average developers more productive, not necessarily expert developers.
- bluefirebrand 1y agoPersonally I don't want poor-average developers to be more productive, I want them to be more expert
- Terr_ 1y ago"Compared to last quarter, we've shipped 40% more spaghetti-code!"
- pdabbadabba 1y agoSure. But what would you suppose the ratio is between expert, average, and mediocre coders in the average organization? I think a small minority would be in the first category, and I don’t see a technology on the horizon that will change that except for LLMs, which seem like they could make mediocre coders both more productive and produce higher quality output.
- bluefirebrand 1y agoThey definitely aren't producing higher quality output imo, but definitely producing low quality output faster That's not a tradeoff that I like
- pdabbadabba 1y agoThat's the study I'm really interested in: does AI use improve the output of lower-skill developers (not experts). My intuitions point me in the opposite direction. I think AI would improve their work. But I'm not aware of any hard data that would help answer this question.