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by shostack 1117 days ago
What it doesn't tell us though is how useful the rejected recommendations were.

Meaning, how many rejected solutions were sufficient to give the engineer enough context to turn a 30m task into a 5m task because they generated a recommendation, got an idea, rejected it, and rewrote it more efficiently or more correctly?

There's a lot of "devil in the details" likely buried in here.