Comment by pdabbadabba
4 days ago
Fair enough. For what it's worth, I've always thought that the more reasonable claim is that AI tools make poor-average developers more productive, not necessarily expert developers.
4 days ago
Fair enough. For what it's worth, I've always thought that the more reasonable claim is that AI tools make poor-average developers more productive, not necessarily expert developers.
Personally I don't want poor-average developers to be more productive, I want them to be more expert
Sure. But what would you suppose the ratio is between expert, average, and mediocre coders in the average organization? I think a small minority would be in the first category, and I don’t see a technology on the horizon that will change that except for LLMs, which seem like they could make mediocre coders both more productive and produce higher quality output.
They definitely aren't producing higher quality output imo, but definitely producing low quality output faster
That's not a tradeoff that I like
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