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And can’t be mentored by the senior except in some ersatz flat text instruction files.

And the mistakes AI makes don't carry the same code smells juniors make. There are markers in human code that signals how well they understood the problem, AI code more often looks correct at a glance even if it's horribly problematic.

Yeah, this is a big thing. AIs (at the moment) don't learn. You wait for a new model to come out and hope it is better than the last one. But that isn't the same thing as a person learning over time.

> AIs (at the moment) don't learn.

Yes, and even when it learns (because there's new version of the AI model) it doesn't learn according to your company/team's values. Those values might be very specific to your business model.

Currently, AI (LLM) is just a tool. It's a novel and apparently powerful tool. But it's still just a tool.

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