alt Hacker NewsI've spent 30 years seeing the junk many human developers deliver, so I've had 30 years to figure out how we build systems around teams to make broken output coalesce into something reliable.
A lot of people just don't realise how bad the output of the average developer is, nor how many teams successfully ship with developers below average.
To me, that's a large part of why I'm happy to use LLMs extensively. Some things need smart developers. A whole lot of things can be solved with ceremony and guardrails around developers who'd struggle to reliably solve fizzbuzz without help.
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dullcrisp • today at 1:58 AM
I’m sorry.
Did you also notice the evolution of average developers over time? I mean, if you take code from a developer ten years ago and compare it with their output now, you can see improvement.
I assume that over time, the output improves because of the effort and time the developer invests in themselves. However, LLMs might reduce that effort to zero — we just don't know how developers will look after ten years of using LLMs now.
Still, if you have 30 years of experience in the industry, you should be able to imagine what the real output might be.