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0 pointschrisandchris1y ago0 comments

Same here.

A friend, whose SQL knowledge is minimal, used an LLM to query data from a database over a couple of tables. Yes, after a lot of trial and error he (most probably) got the correct data, however the only one being able to read the query is the LLM itself. It's full of coalesce, subselects that repeat the same joins again and again.

LLM will do a lot for you, but I really hate this "this will [already did] solve everything". No, it did not and no, because it's quality is those of a junior dev, at max.

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anonzzzies1y ago

> because it's quality is those of a junior dev, at max.

Echo chamber/bias I guess. I know many, many seniors with big pay checks working for big companies who are vastly worse than sonnet at the moment. Juniors stand literally no chance unless very talented.

chrisandchrisOP1y ago

I understand a junior dev as someone who's missing (or does not have at a greater level) of maintainability, readability, longevity of a solution.

I don't know what companies pay for and I don't care, because if we go by that, every definition of every word is arguable (because there's everywhere someone out of the range of the definition)

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