Comment by linsomniac
18 hours ago
>burden seems much greater than...
Because the burden is much lower than if you were authoring the same commit yourself without any automation?
18 hours ago
>burden seems much greater than...
Because the burden is much lower than if you were authoring the same commit yourself without any automation?
Is that true? I'd like to think my commits are less burdensome to review than a fresh out of boot camp junior dev especially if all that's being done is fixing linter issues. Perhaps there's a small benefit, but doesn't seem like a major productivity boost.
A junior dev is not a good approximation of the strengths and weaknesses of these models.
Agreed! The comparison is great for estimating the scope of the tasks they're capable of--they do very well with bite-sized tasks that can be individually verified. But their world knowledge is that of a principal engineer!
I think this is why people struggle so much with agents--they see the agent perform magic, then assume it can be trusted with a larger task, where it completely falls down.
The post I originally commented on literally made that comparison when describing the models as a massive productivity boost.