[abletonlive]

If this is true then we wouldn't have senior engineers that delegate. My suggestion is to think a couple more cycles before hitting that reply button. It'll save us all from reading obviously and confidently wrong statements.

[guappa]

AI aren't real people… You do that with real people because you can't just rsync their knowledge.

Only on this website of completely reality detached individuals such an obvious comment would be needed.

[abletonlive]

So...you don't think you can give LLMs more knowledge ?? You're the one operating in detached reality. The reality is that a ton of engineers are finding LLMs useful, such as the author.

Maybe consider if you don't find it useful you're working on problems that it's not good at, or even more likely, you just suck at using the tools.

Anybody that finds value out of LLMs has a hard time understanding how one would conclude they are useless and you can't "give it instructions because that's that hard part" but it's actually really easy to understand. The folks that think this are just bad at it. We aren't living in some detached reality. The reality is that some people are just better than others

[guappa]

If you have a dumb AI and a good AI, why not just use the good AI?

[TeMPOraL]

Senior engineers delegate in part because they're coaxed into a faux-management role (all of the responsibilities, none of the privileges). Coding is done by juniors; by the time anyone gains enough experience to finally begin to know what they're doing, they're relegated to "mentoring" and "training" new cohort of fresh juniors.

Explains a lot about software quality these days.

[abletonlive]

Or you know, they are leading big initiatives and cant do it all by themselves. Seniors can also delegate to other seniors. I am beyond senior with 11YOE and still code on a ton of my initiatives.