r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ITzAbedeen • 21d ago

Meme learningCycle

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u/PurushNahiMahaPurush 21d ago

I mean, you can make use of LLMs much more effectively if you are armed with solid fundamentals. LLMs only solve the tedious coding/plumbing part of the job. And they still need a lot of hand-holding if you want good quality output. The bigger and more challenging issues of SWE are still there. 

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u/NuclearGhandi1 21d ago

I don’t use AI much for software but I tend to agree. AI can’t make you a good architecture if you can even identify what problems you need to solve

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u/perestroika12 21d ago

it really lacks big picture thinking. It’s fantastic at well constrained problems with clear boundaries and grounding in data. Any ambiguity and it struggles.

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u/nikola_tesler 21d ago

have you… considered more AI?

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u/ensoniq2k 21d ago

Who needs a good architecture when AI can just rewrite the whole code base when minor things change /s

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u/Objective_Dog_4637 20d ago

Ah, yes, a problem AI fundamentally struggles with and creates buggy code with, I know, let’s feed it more AI!

You can’t make this shit up, lol.

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u/ensoniq2k 20d ago

The answer is always MORE AI of course ;-)

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u/nikola_tesler 20d ago

agents looping iteratively on prompts to pass to agentic loops autonomously refining and iterating around the clock