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Lots of software engineers were just stack overflow copy pasters. No offense, it’s also a good way to learn, I’ve also done my fair share of stupid programming,
by ttoinou 3mo ago
Lots of software engineers were just stack overflow copy pasters. No offense, it’s also a good way to learn, I’ve also done my fair share of stupid programming, but let’s not pretend the value to humankind was huge there
- sublinear 3mo agoLots of people are now writing much worse code with AI. I'm not sure what you're saying other than "experience is valuable".
- ttoinou 3mo agoIf it's prototypes or throwaway scripts, then it's fine and it's still valuable experience
- ShinyLeftPad 3mo agoSure, now when they are LLM copy-pasters things are going to suddenly improve
- ttoinou 3mo agoWith AI LLM, the power of smart copy pasting is now also in the hands of non-geeky people. And also more senior developers can spin up and manage dozens of juniors via agentic AI Juniors now need to be more skilled than before
- ShinyLeftPad 3mo ago> the power of smart copy pasting is now also in the hands of non-geeky people Why? they didn't know how to copy before or something? > spin up and manage dozens of juniors Let's not call it a "junior" if one trigger word deep in the filesystem can make it forget it's a programmer and start building Minecraft castles. Your comparison is unfair to anyone with even 1 week of programming experience.
- ttoinou 3mo agoWhat if your junior is contacted by a three letter agency ? He will be legally forced in the USA to follow their direction and not your instruction. LLM are so powerful exactly because they can interpret unstructured inputs in so many ways, prompt injection is a feature not a bug
- ShinyLeftPad 3mo agoWhy do you think an LLM is following only your instructions? Unless maybe you are in a tiny minority running locally