[exe34]

> Junior engineers are intelligent enough to understand when they don't understand. They interrogate the intent and context of the tasks they are given

Eh, I wouldn't apply that as if it's a general thing. yes, the really good ones do. many will equally plough through into the mud with albeit admirable determination.

[fmbb]

yeah so the LLMs are like a stupid junior

only they work for free and produce megabytes of stupid code per hour

[exe34]

a junior that can instantly fix a problem spotted by a senior even if it involves touching 10 files. no meat junior can do that.

[elevatortrim]

Yes but for the purposes of these conversations, we do not need to say "good juniors" "good engineers" every time. After all, for every task, it is possible to find someone who is really bad at it, and we should not need to keep repeating we are not talking about _that_ person.

[exe34]

ah you're a mathematician I see. without loss of generality, let's assume the bottom half doesn't exist. therefore only the top half needs to be bested and the task is now impossible. qed.