> I am never letting junior to midlevels into my team again
Exactly. You control the quality of the people in your team. You can train, fire, hire, etc until you get the skill level you want.
You have effectively no control over the quality of the output from an LLM. You get what the frontier labs give you and must work with that.
That is not correct.
It is much easier to control quality of an Ai than of inexperienced developers.
I think we are talking past each other.
> I am never letting junior to midlevels into my team again
My point is, you control the experience level of the engineers on your team. The fact that you can say you won't let junior or midlevels on your team proves that.
You do not have that level of control with LLMs. Anthropic and OpenAI are roughly the same quality at any given time. The rest are not useful.
Ah, so that is not entirely correct.
I can control LLMs through skills and other gateways.
There are still tasks that LLMs does not really carry out that well, where a proper senior is needed.
Butnthese tasks are quickly disappearing, especially while the code base is slowly being optimized for agentic engineering.