If you walked up to random coworker just told them "jesus christ you made it so much worse" and they started updating their code based on that do you think they would do a good job?
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Oh, I’m meant to treat it like a coworker? I thought it was spicy autocomplete? If it was a coworker, I’d be questioning why I’m getting them to write code for me, is it something they’re more skilled at than me? am I teaching them? Can I learn from them? Are they happy to do this?
aug 28, 2025, 10:12 pm • 1 0 • view
This is the thing, if I’m meant to treat it like a bit of software, it kinda sucks because it’s stochastic and inconsistent, if I’m meant to treat it like a person, first of all, yikes wtf, but also, it’s probably not saving me time, and it can’t get anything from it, because it isn’t a person.
aug 28, 2025, 10:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Treating it like a jr developer who you actually want to get good work product out of and spicy autocomplete are the exact same thing....
aug 28, 2025, 10:39 pm • 0 0 • view
How very dehumanising for junior developers
aug 28, 2025, 10:41 pm • 1 0 • view
i mean if you told a co-worker "jesus christ you made it so much worse" that would be dehumanizing...
aug 28, 2025, 10:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes but I thought you said that LLMs are “spicy autocomplete that doesn’t have feelings” and not co-workers. I don’t think anyone was suggesting directly being rude to your colleagues, I’m just pointing out that “LLMs” become different things depending on what their fans want them to be.
aug 28, 2025, 10:55 pm • 1 0 • view