alt Hacker Newsi've seen a lot of startups that use AI to QA human work. how about the idea of use humans to QA AI work? a lot of interesting things might follow
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A large percentage (at least 50%) of the market for software developers will shift to lower paid jobs focused on managing, inspecting and testing the work that AI does. If a median software developer job paid $125k before, it'll shift to $65k-$85k type AI babysitting work after.
No thanks.
Yes, but not like what you think. Programmers are going to look more like product managers with extra technical context.
AI is also great at looking for its own quality problems.
Yesterday on an entirely LLM generated codebase
Prompt: > SEARCH FOR ANTIPATTERNS
Found 17 antipatterns across the codebase:
And then what followed was a detailed list, about a third of them I thought were pretty important, a third of them were arguably issues or not, and the rest were either not important or effectively "this project isn't fully functional"
As an engineer, I didn't have to find code errors or fix code errors, I had to pick which errors were important and then give instructions to have them fixed.
This feels a lot like the "humans must be ready at any time to take over from FSD" that Tesla is trying to push. With presumably similar results.
If it works 85% of the time, how soon do you catch that it is moving in the wrong direction? Are you having a standup every few minutes for it to review (edit) it's work with you? Are you reviewing hundreds of thousands of lines of code every day?
It feels a bit like pouring cement or molten steel really fast: at best, it works, and you get things done way faster. Get it just a bit wrong, and your work is all messed up, as well as a lot of collateral damage. But I guess if you haven't shipped yet, it's ok to start over? How many different respins can you keep in your head before it all blends?