alt Hacker NewsAre you an adept sysadmin, cloud architect, and/or data engineer?
It’s a weird catch-22 giving praise like that to LLMs.
If you are, then you might be able to intuit and fill in the gaps left my the LLM and not even know it.
And if you’re not, then how could you judge?
Not really much to do with that you were saying, really, just a thought I had.
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I would consider myself adept at all three, not top 1% in either but the intersection of all 3 easily.
Context I have hired hundreds of engineers and built many engineering teams from scratch to 50+, and have been doing systems administration, solutions architecture, infrastructure design, devops, cloud orchestration and data platform design for 25 years.
I'm not bluffing when I say Claude's latest sonnet model and Cline in vscode has really been 99th percentile good on everything I've thrown at it (with some direction, as needed) and has done more productive, quality work than a team of 10 engineers in the last week alone.
If you haven't tried it I can understand your pessimism.
I'd assume the person giving the praise is at least a bit of all 3.
> It’s a weird catch-22 giving praise like that to LLMs.
It's a bit asymmetrical though isn't it -- judging quality is in fact much easier than producing it.
> you might be able to intuit and fill in the gaps left my the LLM and not even know it
Just because you are able to fill gaps with it doesn't mean it's not good. With all of these tools you basically have to fill gaps. There are still differences between Cline vs Cursor vs Aider vs Codebuff.
Personally I've found Cline to be the best to date, followed by Cursor.