I’m genuinely impressed people can get the damn things to generate working code. I periodically ask them to do something and every single time they will hallucinate.
New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.
Submitted 2 months ago by Cat@ponder.cat to technology@lemmy.zip
https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-and-learning
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allywilson@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
LLMs can’t do software engineering. They can do some basic coding tasks if given very precise instructions by someone that did the actual engineering work.
It’s like having a mediocre junior developer that just happens to know the syntax and standard library of every major programming language as a service.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
This is more of a personality problem than an issue with AI itself. StackOverflow has been doing people’s homework for decades now.
If the talent is crap, then you tighten the hiring process. Never hire a developer without a series of code tests.
jonne@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Yeah, I feel like I read the exact same article about stackoverflow 10 years ago. Junior devs will paste code from anywhere in their project until they properly learn the language/framework/platform.