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roxolotl ◴[] No.44295053[source]
> But interns learn and get better over time. The time that you spend reviewing code or providing feedback to an intern is not wasted, it is an investment in the future. The intern absorbs the knowledge you share and uses it for new tasks you assign to them later on.

This is the piece that confuses me about the comparison to a junior or an intern. Humans learn about the business, the code, the history of the system. And then they get better. Of course there’s a world where agents can do that, and some of the readme/doc solutions do that but the limitations are still massive and so much time is spent reexplaining the business context.

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1. xarope ◴[] No.44295270[source]
I think this is how certain LLMs end up with 14k worth of system prompts
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2. Terr_ ◴[] No.44295597[source]
"Be fast", "Be Cheap", "Be Good".

*dusts off hands* Problem solved! Man, am I great at management or what?