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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This is more of a personality problem than an issue with AI itself. StackOverflow has been doing people's homework for decades now.

If the talent is crap, then you tighten the hiring process. Never hire a developer without a series of code tests.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, I feel like I read the exact same article about stackoverflow 10 years ago. Junior devs will paste code from anywhere in their project until they properly learn the language/framework/platform.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm genuinely impressed people can get the damn things to generate working code. I periodically ask them to do something and every single time they will hallucinate.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    LLMs can't do software engineering. They can do some basic coding tasks if given very precise instructions by someone that did the actual engineering work.

    It's like having a mediocre junior developer that just happens to know the syntax and standard library of every major programming language as a service.

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