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Exactly what I've been worrying about for a few months now [0]. Arguments like "well at least this is as good as what humans do, and much faster" are fundamenta
by n4r9 11mo ago
Exactly what I've been worrying about for a few months now [0]. Arguments like "well at least this is as good as what humans do, and much faster" are fundamentally missing the point. Humans output things slowly enough that other humans can act as a check.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44743651 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44743651
- lazide 11mo agolooks at the current state of the US government Do they? Because near as I can tell, speed running around the legal system - when one doesn’t have to worry about consequences - works just fine.
- n4r9 11mo agoThat's a good point. I'm talking specifically in the context of deploying code. The potential for senior devs to be totally overwhelmed with the work of reviewing junior devs' code is limited by the speed at which junior devs create PRs.
- lazide 11mo agoSo today? With ML tools?
- n4r9 11mo agoCould you explain what you mean, please?
- lazide 11mo agoJunior devs can currently create CLs/PRs faster than the senior can review them.
- n4r9 11mo agoIndeed. In the language of the post I linked [0]: it's currently an occasional problem, and it risks becoming a widespread rot. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44743651 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44743651
- obscurette 11mo agoI've heard people working in construction industry mentioning that quality of design fell off the cliff when industry began to use computers more widely – less time and less people involved. The same is true about printing – there was much more time and people in the loop before computers. My grandmother worked with linotype machine printing newspapers. They were really good at catching and fixing grammar errors, sometimes catching even factual errors etc.