AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive

Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by bpt3 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @02:12PM (#44801943)

I thought the idea was that AI would make us collectively better off, not flood the zone with technical debt as if thousands of newly minted CS/bootcamp graduates were unleashed without any supervision.

LLMs are still stochastic parrots, though highly impressive and occasionally useful ones. LLMs are not going to solve problems like "what is the correct security model for this application given this use case".

AI might get there at some point, but it won't be solely based on LLMs.

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by rob_c on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @04:34PM (#44803906)

> "what is the correct security model for this application given this use case".

Frankly I've seen LLMs answer better than people trained in security theatre so be very careful where you draw the line.

If you're trying to say they struggle with what they've not seen before. Yes, provided that what is new isn't within the phase space they've been trained over. Remember there's no photographs of cats riding dinosaurs but SD models can generate them.

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by bpt3 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @07:13PM (#44805679)

Saying that they aren't worse than an incompetent human isn't a ringing endorsement.

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