I think it's roughly producing what a junior dev might produce in a day every 5 minutes
horsawlarway on Hacker News
producing what a junior dev might produce in a day every 5 minutes
In the thread “Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?”, replying to this comment
Helped: Frequent human-in-the-loop steering and stopping to ask questions.
Got in the way: Model thinks longer and repetitively; not as capable as Opus.
… I have opinions about lots of things, and re-inforcing that the model should stop and ask frequently seems to get me considerably better output, without having to "re-roll" if you will. I've done a good bit of management, and I think it's roughly producing what a junior dev might produce in a day every 5 minutes. And just like a junior dev, you need to be steering it back on track fairly often. …