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1. mjburg+q4[view] [source] 2025-06-02 21:36:07
>>tablet+(OP)
Can we get a video of a workday conducted by these people?

Unless there's a significant sense of what people are working on, and how LLMs are helping -- there's no point engaging -- there's no detail here.

Sure, if your job is to turn out tweaks to a wordpress theme, presumably that's now 10x faster. If its to work on a new in-house electric motor in C for some machine, presumably that's almost entirely unaffected.

No doubt junior web programmers working on a task backlog, specifically designed for being easy for juniors, are loving LLMs.

I use LLMs all the time, but each non-trivial programming project that has to move out of draft-stage needs rewriting. In several cases, to such a degree that the LLM was a net impediment.

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2. jsnell+c5[view] [source] 2025-06-02 21:40:46
>>mjburg+q4
Not exactly what you're asking for, but >>44159166 from today is not a junior web programmer working through the backlog, and the commit history contains all the prompts.
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3. mjburg+47[view] [source] 2025-06-02 21:50:32
>>jsnell+c5
Sure, thanks. I mean it's a typescript OAuth library, so perhaps we might say mid-level web programmer developing a library from scratch with excellent pre-existing references, and with a known good reference API to hand. I'd also count that as a good use case for an LLM.
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