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by HarHarVeryFunny 821 days ago
Yeah, but a developer intern already has human-level AGI to support the on-the-job developer training you are going to help give them. Any LLM available today, or probably in next 5-10 years for that matter, has neither AGI nor the ability to learn on the job.

My experience of working with interns, or low-skill developers, is that the benefit normally flows one way. You are taking time out from completing the project to help them learn. Someone/something of low capability isn't going to be relieving you of the large or complex tasks that would actually be useful, and be a time saver - they are going to try to do the small/simple tasks you could have breezed through, and suck up a lot of your time having to find out and explain to them how they messed up. Of course Devin doesn't even have online learning, so he'd be making the same mistakes over and over.