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Simon Willison

@tbortels I think I agree with everything you just said

Becoming an effective, responsible developer who can reliably produce quality software is a journey

I’m excited that LLM-assistance, applied in the right way, might help accelerate people on that journey - and can help a massive boost for people who have managed to develop those core skills

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Tom Bortels

@simon

I suspect you have more faith in both AI and people than I do :-)

There are absolutely places AI can be super useful - but they're usually not in very general situations, they're narrow. Quickly looking up relevant references in a context easily checked for correctness, for example. But I fear the "narrow" but gets lost and people want to depend on it a lot more than they should - for example, by hiring a junior and hoping AI will shore up the difference.

Ah well - self correcting problem. Might be an expensive lesson, but /shrug

@simon

I suspect you have more faith in both AI and people than I do :-)

There are absolutely places AI can be super useful - but they're usually not in very general situations, they're narrow. Quickly looking up relevant references in a context easily checked for correctness, for example. But I fear the "narrow" but gets lost and people want to depend on it a lot more than they should - for example, by hiring a junior and hoping AI will shore up the difference.

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