I use AI coding tools, and I often find them quite useful, but I completely agree with this statement:
And if you think of LLMs as an extra teammate, there’s no fun in managing them either. Nurturing the personal growth of an LLM is an obvious waste of time.___
At first I found AI coding tools like a junior developer, in that it will keep trying to solve the problem, and never give up or grow frustrated. However, I can’t teach an LLM, yes I can give it guard rails and detailed prompts, but it can’t learn in the same way a teammate can. It will always require supervision and review of its output. Whereas, I can teach a teammate new or different ways to do things, and over time their skills and knowledge will grow, as will my trust in them.
This is true outside of coding too, really anywhere where you’re trying to get an LLM to consistently perform any type of function (no matter how general), in my opinion.
I use AI coding tools, and I often find them quite useful, but I completely agree with this statement:
At first I found AI coding tools like a junior developer, in that it will keep trying to solve the problem, and never give up or grow frustrated. However, I can’t teach an LLM, yes I can give it guard rails and detailed prompts, but it can’t learn in the same way a teammate can. It will always require supervision and review of its output. Whereas, I can teach a teammate new or different ways to do things, and over time their skills and knowledge will grow, as will my trust in them.
This is true outside of coding too, really anywhere where you’re trying to get an LLM to consistently perform any type of function (no matter how general), in my opinion.
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This has been my experience too.