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Thanemateyesterday at 9:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

It makes sense for junior admins and junior platform engineers to leverage LLM's but I'd be highly skeptical for the future skillset of any junior software engineer who leverages LLM's right off the bat, unless we have already moved that goalpost.


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cgiotoday at 3:54 AM

Depends how they use them as arguably was the case with stack overflow or other resources in the past. E.g. an LLM can be a valid and useful way to start discovering or understanding code and architecture. You can ask for a summary , distill important concepts and then read in more detail about them.

SecretDreamsyesterday at 10:12 PM

Ya, this is the issue. LLMs are not great for developing minds. A lot like the internet presently, to be frank.

For fully developed and experienced minds, both can be useful.

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