On 4/18/25 02:53, jeremy ardley wrote:
Obviously you've never had to herd junior developers. I have had to.
It sucks and productivity is woeful due to all the checking and unit
testing and such, plus they quite often have comprehension problems
and are unable to follow instructions - and I'm talking about honours
graduates in IT.
Now I am more productive than literally 10 junior developers. Me and
Claude that is. The difference is I know how to code and how to craft
instructions to smart LLMs like Claude.
I agree. To a certain extent I know my way around python. Java I never
studied. If I enlist LLM, in python it multiplies my productivity
because I know what to ask for and usually notice immediately when it
drops into a rabbit hole. But coding something like java, LLM takes me
through every rabbit hole and I can hardly tell the difference but sure
don't get productive with my project. I'm not implying that LLM is
better at python than java. My point is, LLM does not make me an instant
pro on a subject I haven't studied.
You point is more valid if you are referring to the crap that is
produced by junior to junior to intermediate programmers being
assisted by Code Pilot. It's truly awful and yet another evil trick by
Micro$oft
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