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Re:The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding by hiddencost on Friday December 06, 2024 @02:42AM (#42337381)
My experience is that junior devs write most of the code at a company and senior devs spend most of their time making sure the junior devs don't break anything.

Which seems to work pretty well, in my experience.

Re:The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding by cheeseface on Friday December 06, 2024 @02:55AM (#42337453)
That sounds like a horrible environment to work in. How’s your senior dev retention?
Re:The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding by Muromec on Friday December 06, 2024 @03:17AM (#42337575)
Yeah, with the catch being that junior devs then become senior devs to review the code as the accumulate feedback given by the reward function.
Re:The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding by ithkuil on Friday December 06, 2024 @03:54AM (#42337770)
Which is something that in principle AI tools could do, i.e. learn from feedback is how they got created in the first place.

However the current generation of models needs a specific form of training set that is quite different from what a human would produce through direct interaction with the model.

For one it needs many more examples than a human would need. But also the form of the example is different: it must be an example of an acceptable answer. This way a model can compute how far it is from the desired outcome.

Further research in how to efficiently fine tune models will make this gap narrower and perhaps senior devs will be able to efficiently give learnable feedback through their normal course of interaction