alt Hacker News> Humans and LLMs both share a fundamental limitation. Humans have a working memory, and LLMs have a context limit.
But there’s a more important difference: I can’t spin up 20 decent human programmers from my terminal.
The argument that "code was never the bottleneck" is genuinely appealing, but it hasn’t matched my experience at all. I’m getting through dramatically more work now. This is true for my colleagues too.
My non-technical niece recently built a pretty solid niche app with AI tools. That would have been inconceivable a few years ago.
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felipellrocha • today at 5:10 PM
I guess that what people debate on here is what “decent” mean. From my experience, these llms spit out dog shit code, so 20 agents equal 20x more dog shit.
Would you entertain the idea that "work was never the bottleneck", or even "building products was never the bottleneck"?
We need to address Jevons' Paradox somehow.