If you replace a junior with #LLM and make the senior review output, the reviewer is now scanning for rare but catastrophic errors scattered across a much larger output surface due to LLM "productivity."

That's a cognitively brutal task.

Humans are terrible at sustained vigilance for rare events in high-volume streams. Aviation, nuclear, radiology all have extensive literature on exactly this failure mode.

I propose any productivity gains will be consumed by false negative review failures.

@pseudonym @mayintoronto … and: there will be no juniors to grow into seniors. 😨

@deborahh @mayintoronto

Yup. This is my biggest structural concern, really. But I only had 500 characters to consider the previous post, and wanted to focus on the review cost of any "gains" one might have.

There are more related topics to discuss, but the breaking of the funnel to train the next generation of skilled people is huge.