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bcrosby95yesterday at 5:41 PM1 replyview on HN

This is the crux of the problem. LLMs make me significantly faster at writing code I was mediocre or bad at. But when I use it to write code in domains I have more knowledge in I see design and correctness problems all over the place and actively fix them and it slows down my output.

Speed is seductive.

The bar isn't "this is a known good contributor". Its "this is a known good contributor working in a space they have knowledge in and has a track record of actually checking and thinking about LLM output before submitting it." It's much higher and I don't see how you can approve people on an organization-wide basis.


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theszyesterday at 8:59 PM

  > LLMs make me significantly faster at writing code I was mediocre or bad at. But when I use it to write code in domains I have more knowledge in I see design and correctness problems all over the place and actively fix them and it slows down my output.
I think a very similar phenomena is called Gell-Mann amnesia effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#%22Gell-Mann_...