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by gymbeaux 4 days ago
I recognize that I seem to be an above-average developer and so my standards for LLM output are higher. I'm seeing enough comments where people are comparing LLM output to offshore dev output or even onshore mid-level or junior-level output. I guess my response would be something like "why are we celebrating this as a huge success for mankind?" If we dump obscene amounts of electricity and silicon into datacenters, we can produce mediocre or "adequate" software engineers?

I agree that LLM output tends to be absolutely flooded with comments. I think it helps to quickly see "is the output what I expected, does it do everything it should be doing in this method?" but I also think most people don't bother reading the comments.