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0 pointsforgotaccount314d ago0 comments

> you need to micro-manage it.

It is significantly easier to micro-manage an AI than a suite of junior developers. The AI doesn't replace a principal engineer, it's replacing junior and weaker senior developers who need stories broken down extremely concisely to be able to get anything done. The time it takes to break down a story such that a junior through weak senior developers can pick it up and execute it well would have the AI already done with testing built around it.

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gylterud14d ago

Juniors learn. Some juniors are potential good seniors. Over time they will internalise good architecture and be able to make good judgments on their own.

Micromanaging LLMs is like having Dory from Finding Nemo as your colleague. You find ways to communicate, but there is no learning going on.

abustamam14d ago

LLMs can learn, just not the same way that juniors do. When an LLM does something wrong you can always update it's rules or skills to not make that mistake again. Or you can utilize a subagent whose sole purpose is to review code to prevent that mistake. Lots of ways you can improve LLMs over time.

Of course if you don't provide that feedback loop, no learning happens. I guess the same could be said of a junior, though.

ModernMech14d ago

Building larger systems of accountability isn't usually what people mean by learning. And besides, if telling an LLM not to do something were actually reliable, then LLMs would be a lot more useful than they are. And even if that were reliable, then you're just reinventing expert systems, which didn't work.

esafak14d ago

Juniors don't always learn.

hansmayer14d ago

I think if you tried working with some junior folks, you'd be quite surprised. You know, with at least some of them choosing to use their brains and all.

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