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      11 days ago

      I work with frontier models every day that I participate in gainful employment activities, and I don’t think I would call them reliable. Definitely not reliable enough to design complicated software correctly on a language there’s relatively little training data on.

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        11 days ago

        They struggle with design because they can’t tell a good idea from a bad idea without writing a comparative essay first. You can still make it work as long as no more than a third of your sessions are about implementation. Everything else should be about exploration and planning. The human drives the design.

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          10 days ago

          To be honest with you, that sounds like more effort than just making it yourself for the most part.

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            9 days ago

            It’s an equal amount of effort but 10 to 100 times more productive so I actually have time to add unit tests and error recovery strategies before the managers come asking questions.

            I guess if your company isn’t totally dysfunctional it’s not as helpful but I’ve never even heard of a corporate dev environment not ran by idiot PMs