> I’ve often heard, with decent reason, an LLM compared to a junior colleague. But I find LLMs are quite happy to say “all tests green”, yet when I run them, there are failures. If that was a junior engineer’s behavior, how long would it be before H.R. was involved?
A junior engineer can't write code anywhere nearly as fast. It's apples vs oranges. I can have the LLm rewrite the code 10 times until its correct and its much cheaper than hiring an obsequious jr engineer
Junior engineers get better and learn from their mistakes. An LLM will happily make then same mistake 10 times if you try asking it to do something similar in 3 months. In the long term, I don't think LLMs actually save you time considering the amount of extra time spent reviewing/verifying its code and fixing tech debt.
If an AI can’t write the code after two attempts, I’ve never had success trying ten times