Very true, but not at the pace or scale that LLMs do. And, in some cases they were able to be mitigated/fixed over time by the more experienced contributors, and eventually would learn and become the experienced contributors themselves!
Agreed, all they’re doing is giving us tooling that can do a mediocre job really quickly: an experienced developer can wrangle a couple of juniors effectively, but this is an exponential multiplier of that output.
TBF inexperienced developers generate fragile codebases too.
Very true, but not at the pace or scale that LLMs do. And, in some cases they were able to be mitigated/fixed over time by the more experienced contributors, and eventually would learn and become the experienced contributors themselves!
We accelerated the problem and nerfed the fix.
Agreed, all they’re doing is giving us tooling that can do a mediocre job really quickly: an experienced developer can wrangle a couple of juniors effectively, but this is an exponential multiplier of that output.
Are they heralded as the second coming by the broligarchy?
“Super Intelligence”?
Fortunately not.