Matthew GarrettMar 7

My job as a senior developer with a team of juniors is to figure out what to write, sketch a PoC as guidance, and then delegate the actual implementation to them. I'm going to look at that, explain misunderstandings or poor style choices, and guide them into implementing something that meets our standards.

I don't think LLMs can do my job yet. But I think we're getting shockingly close to them being able to do the other part. And I'm worried how we're going to get more senior developers.

Show threadmahadevankMar 7
@mjg59 I'm obviously missing something - they are definitely not that good.
Show threadMatthew GarrettMar 7
@mahadevank It involves a bunch of handholding, but honestly pretty much?
Show threadmahadevank
@mjg59 ah ok, as long as we're talking of handholding - in my experience, its destroying Juniors - they've stopped using their brains because the tech lords have told them to focus on "higher-order" problems and not worry about code.
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