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Re:AI Was Supposed to Help Juniors Shine. Why Does It Mostly... by skydhash on Sunday September 21, 2025 @10:21AM (#45322989)
> The result is that instead of spending X units of time on spec and THEN y units of time on coding, you get the whole thing in x units of time AND you have a spec.

It's more like x units of time thinking and y units of times coding, whereas I see people spend x/2 thinking, x typing the specs, y correcting the specs, and y giving up and correcting the code.

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Re:AI Was Supposed to Help Juniors Shine. Why Does It Mostly... by fsloth on Sunday September 21, 2025 @11:20AM (#45323540)
Sure! That's inefficient. I know just how I work and I've been writing the type of programs I do for quite many years. And I know what would take me normally a week takes me few days at best.
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Re:AI Was Supposed to Help Juniors Shine. Why Does It Mostly... by nicce on Sunday September 21, 2025 @04:08PM (#45326190)
But if you can’t define the specs, you can’t write the code without LLM either?
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