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The humans I did work with were very very bright

… The humans I did work with were very very bright. No software developer in my career ever needed more than a paragraph of JIRA ticket for the problem statement and they figured out domains that were not even theirs to being with without making any mistakes and rather not only identifying edge cases but sometimes actually improving the domain processes by suggesting what is wasteful and what can be done differently.

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rotcevHN

PS: Just to be clear - even the most expensive humans are unreliable, would make stupid mistakes, and their output MUST be reviewed carefully, so you’re not any different either. You’re just a random next-thought generator based on neuron firing distributions with no real thought process, trained on a few billion years of evolution like all other humans.

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throw310822HN

> The humans I did work with [...] figured out domains that were not even theirs to being with without making any mistakes Seriously? I would like to remind you that every single mistake in history until the last couple of years has been made by humans.

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fwipsyHN

Holy shit, you've never worked with anyone who made ANY mistakes? You must be one of those 10x devs I hear about. Wow, cool, please stay away from my team.

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DrJokepuHN

I think you are very fortunate. I have worked with plenty of software developers like that, in fact, the overwhelming majority of them have been like that.

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andoandoHN

Uhh what, I speak to llms in broken english with minimal details and they figure it out better than I would have if you told me the same garbage

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shaknaHN

I have worked with people like this frequently. The ones you're always happy to see on the team. Also worked with people who were frustrated that they had to force push git to "save" their changes. Honestly, a token-box I can just ignore, would be an upgrade over this half of the team.

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illuminator83HN

I and everybody else here call BS on that. People make mistakes all the time. Arguably at similar or worse rates.

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