alt Hacker News> judging quality is in fact much easier than producing it
There’s still a skill floor required to accurately judge something.
A layman can’t accurately judge the work of a surgeon.
> Just because you are able to fill gaps with it doesn't mean it's not good.
If I had to fill in my sysadmin’s knowledge gaps I wouldn’t call them a good sysadmin.
Not saying the tool isn’t useful, mind you, just playing semantics with calling a tool a “good sysadmin” or whatever.
> There’s still a skill floor required to accurately judge something.
Sure but it's not high at all.
Your typical sysadmin is doing a lot of Googling. If perplexity can tell you exactly what to do 90% of the time without error, that's a pretty good sysadmin.
Your typical programmer is doing a lot of googling and write-eval loops. If you are doing many flawless write-eval loops with the help of cline, cline is a pretty good programmer.
A lot of things AI is helping with also have good, easy to observe / generate, real-time metrics you can use to judge excellence.