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New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. (nmn.gl)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Same. It can generate credible-looking code, but I don't find it very useful. Here's what I've tried:

  • describe a function - takes longer to read the explanation than grok the code
  • generate tests - hallucinates arguments, doesn't do proper boundary checks, etc
  • looking up docs - mostly useful to find search terms for the real docs

The second was kind of useful since it provided the structure, but I still replaced 90% of it.

I'm still messing with it, but beyond solving "blank page syndrome," it's not that great. And for that, I mostly just copy something from elsewhere in the project anyway, which is often faster than going to the LLM.

I'm really bad at explaining what I want, because by the time I can do that, it's faster to just build it. That said, I'm a senior dev, so I've been around the block a bit.