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It's no different from supervising a naïve junior engineer who also copy/pastes from 15 year old SO posts (a tale as old as time): you need to carefully review
by MontyCarloHall 10mo ago
It's no different from supervising a naïve junior engineer who also copy/pastes from 15 year old SO posts (a tale as old as time): you need to carefully review and actually grok the code the junior/AI writes. Sometimes this ends up taking longer than writing it yourself, sometimes it doesn't. As with all decisions in delegating work, the trick is knowing ahead of time whether this will be the case.
- spzb 10mo agoNaive junior engineers eventually learn and become competent senior engineers. LLMs forget everything they "learn" as soon as the context window gets too big.
- MontyCarloHall 10mo agoVery true! I liken AI to having an endless supply of newly hired interns with near-infinite knowledge but intern-level skills.
- cheevly 10mo agoThere are like a dozen well-established ways to overcome this. Learn how to use the basic tools and patterns my dude.
- zwnow 10mo agoI have yet to see a junior trying to install random/non existing libs.
- pigpop 10mo agoIf you forced them to try it from memory without giving them access to the web you sure would.