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by tossandthrow 245 days ago
> ... Who is to blame here?

That is not really relevant, is it? The LLM is not a human.

The question is whether it is still af efficient to use LLMs after spending huge amounts of time giving the context - or if it is just as efficient to write the code yourself.

> I still remember training a junior hire who started off with

Working with LLMs is not training junior developers - treating it as such is yet another resource sink.

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I think we have to agree that we disagree. What works for you doesn't have to work for me and vice-versa.
If you want to sit and throw tokens after thinking you are treating an LLM like a junior developer, all power to you.

Meanwhile, I think I will stick to get tangible performance benefits out if its usage.