Which is also horrifying if you think about it for more than a second.
"Want something to happen? Bet a lot of money that it won't" goes both ways. "Want to make money and have power over missile systems? Bet, and then make something happen."
Or Claw-like harnesses that we make ourselves? It takes honestly like 15 minutes to roll your own, so I did it thinking "well, hopefully it's not considered third party"
Working with AI just feels like having a team of junior employees.
Is this the same effect that causes managers and people in power to sometimes become... (for lack of a better phrase) stupid and crazy?
edit: Everyone is responding to the "junior" part of my comment without addressing the actual question I'm asking. I should have just said "employees" -- Sorry.
It doesn't. Juniors are generally SLOW because they are soaking up information and constantly learning. However, this allowed them to learn how to work through difficult problems, and how to communicate if they can't achieve their goals.
I think LLMs are a big problem for development of junior devs.(pun intended)
Agreed, and I feel like it was pretty rare to distinguish junior devs before LLMs, we just used to talk about devs and senior devs. Then we needed a way to make sure it's understood that WE understand how dumb an LLM can be, so "junior" smashed its way into the discourse.
If anything, it's more like an over enthusiastic intern who'll go way down a rabbithole of self-doubt and overengineering when you're away at a conference for 3 days.
How about "Working with AI just feels like having a team of junior employees who are completely unscrupulous, sychophantic and sometimes profoundly stupid psychopathic liars"?
That you can be utterly awful to and they won't quit or feel sick. They'll never show up to work hung over or have a relative that needs surgery so they need an advance in pay and also they're never emotional because their partner of seven years broke up with them and their dog and cat and pet rabbit died. They'll never go to HR because you sexually harassed them, they'll work on your schedule and are available, in your house in your bed, at 4 am when inspiration hits so you pull out your laptop.
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