Comment by DANmode
2 days ago
This.
If you’re not treating these tools like rockstar junior developers, then you’re “holding it wrong”.
2 days ago
This.
If you’re not treating these tools like rockstar junior developers, then you’re “holding it wrong”.
The problem I have with this take is that I'm very skeptical that guiding several junior developers would be more productive than just doing the work myself.
With real junior developers you get the benefit of helping develop them into senior developers, but you really don't get that with AI.
So then do your thing, while it’s doing scaffolding of your next thing.
Also: are you sure?
There’s as many of them as you’re talented enough to asynchronously instruct,
and you can tell them the boundaries within which to work (or not),
in order to avoid too little or too much being done for you to review and approve effectively.
My running joke and justification to our money guy (to pay for expensive tools), is that its like I have 10 junior devs on my side with infinite knowledge (domain expert with too much caffeine), no memory or feelings (I curse it without convo's with HR), can code decent enough (better than most juniors actually), can do excellent system admin....all for a couple hundred dollars a month, which is a bargain!