Mixed
It seems like LLMs are letting middle-of-the-road or mediocre devs appear to be rockstars purely on output speed
gymbeaux on Hacker News
4x the bugs
In the thread “What's gonna happen to software engineers?”
Helped: Generating mundane code like CSV arrays without looking up StackOverflow.
Got in the way: Coworkers shipping buggy code without understanding it or writing tests.
… The product generally works, though I think if the devs were truly rockstars, things would be much smoother. It seems like LLMs are letting middle-of-the-road or mediocre devs appear to be rockstars purely on output speed. Nobody in this org cares if the output has 4x the bugs it should have, just that it was completed quickly. …