Comment by surgical_fire
6 days ago
> The "5x productivity" crowd is excited about this expanded scope, while skeptics correctly note the highest value work hasn't fundamentally changed.
This is true, LLMs can speed up development (some asterisks are required here, but that is generally true).
That said, I've seen, mainly here on HN, so many people hyping it up way beyond this. I've got into arguments here with people claiming it codes at "junior level". Which is an absurd level of bullshit.
Exactly. Juniors may have vastly less breadth of knowledge than an LLM, but they can learn and explore and test software in ways that LLMs cannot.
However, the expansion in scope that senior developers can tackle now will take away work that would ordinarily be given to juniors.
> And there are many things one junior could be helpful with that a different junior would be useless at.
That maybbe true, and would be an interesting topic do discuss if people actually spoke in such a way.
"Developers are now more productive in a way that many projects may need less developers to keep up productivity levels" is not that catchy to generate hype however.