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dakollitoday at 11:42 AM2 repliesview on HN

His Bio: c++, rust and c#, software engineer located in Germany, currently working in the electrical power industry (high- to ultra high voltage testing- and measurement equipment).

The stories I could tell you about people who would have that exact bio. I work adjacent to this industry, I promise you there are thousands of people with these exact credentials who are extremely bad engineers. Also, I'm not sure why having something in your bio makes you qualified.. You llm people have completely fried your brains.

Sorry, I use these tools every single day, a lot, I'm not speaking from a lack of exposure, but these llms are terrible and all they do is add massive amounts of slop to your code. Yes they're useful for when you want to be lazy, or you're doing something not serious, or for the people who want to be lazy all the time (most llm proponents). Have fun making your competency tied to the quality and quantity of tokens you have access to slopper.

I really can't begin to describe how stupid I think you are for thinking that having that statement in your bio makes you a qualified engineer.


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shocktoday at 12:36 PM

> I really can't begin to describe how stupid I think you are for thinking that having that statement in your bio makes you a qualified engineer.

Well, I guess having "Two PhDs, Three masters degrees. Expert in everything.." in your bio makes you very smart!

lionkortoday at 12:25 PM

I agree a bio is a bad proxy, and I'm not saying I'm amazing but I'm not THAT incompetent. Most of my GitHub is pre-LLM era; github.com/lionkor

Edit: And like a lot of tools, HOW you use them is just about as important as the quality of the tool itself. Of course the tools can produce massive amounts of bad quality slop, they can also produce fast, focused edits that make sense.

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