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Junior Dev VS Machine Learning (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] 9point6@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This looks more like a floating point issue than a mistake an LLM would make

[โ€“] CodeMonkey@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago

But a floating point issue is the exact type of issue a LLM would make (it does not understand what a floating point number is and why you should treat them differently). To be fair, a junior developer would make the same type of mistake.

A junior developer is, hopefully, being mentored by more senior coworkers who are extra careful with code reviews and would spot the bug for the dev. Machine generated code needs an even higher level of scrutiny.

It is relatively easy to teach a junior developer to write code that is easy to read and conforms to the teams style guide.