The Seven Voyages Of Steve on Nostr: People thinking that LLMs are a good replacement for junior devs aren’t accounting ...
People thinking that LLMs are a good replacement for junior devs aren’t accounting for the fact that junior devs naturally turn into senior devs through experience. LLMs will never turn into anything more than they are right now, dumb pattern matchers that fool you into thinking they’re smart just because they can steal & remix work at a staggering scale while understanding absolutely none of it. But they can certainly create technical debt fast
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