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by ben_w 296 days ago
From the junior devs I've seen? Even GPT-4 is better than 80% of junior devs. This is not to say "amazeballs", this is the lowest bar where someone actually gets paid.

Those juniors quickly stop being juniors, but while they are juniors, GPT-4 passes this minimal-chargeable-bar.

> What's the benefit of over-anthropomorphizing a hammer?

I go with what (IIRC) @TeMPOraL says on occasion: anthropomorphising them alerts you to the categories of error to expect, that you need to mitigate.

(This is separate to "why do people anthropomorphise this hammer?", to which the answer is IMO "this hammer loudly anthropomorphises itself whenever anyone so much as touches it").

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This hammers starts sounding like Excalibur given all the mythos around it. :)

Agreed on the minimal-chargeable-bar point. The beauty arises when juniors grow.

Magic swords and AI, I'd pick Durandal… but then, I did have a Mac in the 90s :)