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Re:Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug by ratg13 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:05PM (#35547668)
You can’t replace devs with LLMs because someone that knows what they are doing still needs to put it all together.

You can only make employees more productive.. this in turn could, in theory, lessen the need for developers in the long run, but it assumes the company will not bother to use the extra bandwidth for other projects.

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Re:Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug by highduc on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:37PM (#35549718)
I also believe the gain is in productivity more than needing less people. They will fire as much as possible, but the largest gains seem to me to be in productivity.
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Re:Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug by sublinear on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @11:35PM (#35550603)
> use the extra bandwidth for other projects.

This is exactly what would happen if ChatGPT was actually a productivity boost for senior devs. I don't know why some idiots on here keep insisting businesses want to get rid of people when that's not how the game works at all. Extra work capacity will always be used. Regardless of what payroll costs, what's always more important is the ROI.

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