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Re:The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals by ska on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:11PM (#35890293)
In my experience newcomers and junior engineers don't get better by writing more bad code. They learn mostly by 3 methods. 1) finding flaws in their code the hard way (slow) 2) getting careful feedback from more experienced people (has to be done well) and 3) reading better code for a problem they already understand.

I'm not sure GPT helps with any of those yet, as it seems to be more likely to spit out incorrect-to-sortof-okayish so far.

Re:The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals by pulvinar on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:25PM (#35890482)
It goes the other way too. I've had it generate code using better methods or features new to me, when I thought I knew the language well.
Re:The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals by intelVISA on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:07PM (#35891065)
I'm the hallucinating LLM? And Other Such Crises it has given me.