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nicwolff ◴[] No.45057148[source]
> I’ve often heard, with decent reason, an LLM compared to a junior colleague.

No, they're like an extremely experienced and knowledgeable senior colleague – who drinks heavily on the job. Overconfident, forgetful, sloppy, easily distracted. But you can hire so many of them, so cheaply, and they don't get mad when you fire them!

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furyofantares ◴[] No.45057402[source]
These metaphors all suck. Well, ok, yours is funny. But anyway, LLMs are just very different from any human.

They are extremely shallow, even compared to a junior developer. But extremely broad, even compared to the most experienced developer. They type real fuckin fast compared to anyone on earth, but they need to be told what to do much more carefully than anyone on earth.

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CuriouslyC ◴[] No.45057833[source]
I've gotten Claude Code to make CUDA kernels and all kinds of advanced stuff that there's zero percent chance a junior would pull off.

AI is like a super advanced senior wearing a blindfold. It knows almost everything, it's super fast, and it gets confused pretty quickly about things after you tell it.

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1. QuadmasterXLII ◴[] No.45058307[source]
have you ever asked a junior developer to write a cuda kernel?
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2. CuriouslyC ◴[] No.45058350[source]
I've asked juniors to write easier things without success, and I applied the transitive property.
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