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by marcus_holmes 6 days ago
If an expert barista goes to a coffee shop and orders a coffee, do they get a better quality coffee?

Because it's a common experience of folks using LLMs to code (and other activities) that experts get better results than non-experts.

So it definitely suggests that the human is part of the making process, not just the recipient of the finished product as in your coffee example.

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yes, they would, they still didnt make the coffee though. They would likely get banned from said coffee shop if they then went around the room claiming they made the coffee.
No, they wouldn't. An expert barista gets served the same coffee as everyone else, obviously. The analogy is bad for this reason.