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New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. (nmn.gl)

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[–] uranibaba 2 points 4 days ago

I find ChatGPT to sometimes be excellent at giving me a direction, if not outright solving the problem, when I paste errors I'm to lazy to look search. I say sometimes because othertimes it is just dead wrong.

All code I ask ChatGPT to write is usually along the lines for "I have these values that I need to verify, write code that verifies that nothing is empty and saves an error message for each that is" and then I work with the code it gives me from there. I never take it at face value.

Have you actually found that to be the case in anything complex though?

I think that using LLMs to create complex code is the wrong use of the tool. They are better at providing structure to work from rather than writing the code itself (unless it is something simple as above) in my opinion.

If a company cannot invest even a day to go through their hiring process and AI proof it, then they have a shitty hiring process. And with a shitty hiring process, you get shitty devs.

I agree with you on that.