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by pluto_modadic 295 days ago
AI agents have been known to rip out mocks so that the tests pass.
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I have had human devs do that too
cool, can you think of any differences between a human engineer, who is presumably employed by an employer and subject to review and evaluation by a manager and inherently assumed to be capable of receiving feedback and reliably applying it on a go-forward basis to their future work, and an LLM, when they each make this same kind of mistake?
Yes, the difference is about $197,600 of playing fair or $57,600 if offshoring.
the difference between an arbitrary LLM and a human engineer is completely described by the salary you would pay to the human engineer? in all other dimensions they are indistinguishable? nice, super cool
yeah, when its a human its not a random chance and was them subverting testing and safety requirements to shortcut their way through their job.
nope not that