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> Junior engineers are intelligent enough to understand when they don't understand. They interrogate the intent and context of the tasks they are given Eh, I w
by exe34 1y ago
> Junior engineers are intelligent enough to understand when they don't understand. They interrogate the intent and context of the tasks they are given
Eh, I wouldn't apply that as if it's a general thing. yes, the really good ones do. many will equally plough through into the mud with albeit admirable determination.
- elevatortrim 1y agoYes but for the purposes of these conversations, we do not need to say "good juniors" "good engineers" every time. After all, for every task, it is possible to find someone who is really bad at it, and we should not need to keep repeating we are not talking about _that_ person.
- exe34 1y agoah you're a mathematician I see. without loss of generality, let's assume the bottom half doesn't exist. therefore only the top half needs to be bested and the task is now impossible. qed.
- fmbb 1y agoyeah so the LLMs are like a stupid junior only they work for free and produce megabytes of stupid code per hour
- exe34 1y agoa junior that can instantly fix a problem spotted by a senior even if it involves touching 10 files. no meat junior can do that.