Model Evaluation and Threat Research is an AI research charity that looks into the threat of AI agents! That sounds a bit AI doomsday cult, and they take funding from the AI doomsday cult organisat…
    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
      26·
      3 months ago

      Are these entry-level developers that are merely half as good as expert human unassisted developers in the room with us right now?

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        as one of the people representing the “hero group” (for lack of a better term) your comment references: eh. I didn’t start out with all this knowledge and experience. it built up over time.

        it’s more about the mode of thinking and how to engage with a problem, than it is about specific “highly skilled” stuff. the skill and experience help/contribute, they refine, they assist in filtering

        the reason I make this comment is because I think it’s valuable that anyone who can do the job well gets to do the thing, and that it’s never good to gatekeep people out. let’s not unnecessarily contribute to imposter syndrome

    • manicdave@feddit.ukEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      This is a very “nine women can make a baby in one month”.

      The idea that there can even be two half as good developers is a misunderstanding of how anything works. If it worked like that, the study would be a dud because people could just run two AIs for 160% productivity.

    • Ledivin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      144·
      3 months ago

      Entry-level devs ain’t replacing anyone. One senior dev is going to be doing the work of a whole team

        • EnsignWashout@startrek.websiteEnglish
          22·
          3 months ago

          But when a mid-tier or entry level dev can do 60% of what a senior can do, it’ll be a great way to cut costs.

          Same as how an entry level architect can build a building 60% as tall, and that’ll last 60% as long, right?

          Edit: And an entry level aerospace engineer with AI assistance will build a plane that’s 60% as good at not crashing.

          I’m not looking forward to the world I believe is coming…

          • mountainriver@awful.systemsEnglish
            9·
            3 months ago

            Get 2 and the plane will be 120% as good!

            In fact if children with AI are a mere 1% as good, a school with 150 children can build 150% as good!

            I am sure this is how project management works, and if it is not maybe Elon can get Grok to claim that it is. (When not busy praising Hitler.)

            • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
              5·
              3 months ago

              this brooks no argument and it’s clear we should immediately throw all available resources at ai so as to get infinite improvement!!~

              (I even heard some UN policy wonk spout the AGI line recently 🙄)

        • Seminar2250@awful.systemsEnglish
          16·
          3 months ago

          half as good as expert human

          60% of what a senior can do

          is there like a character sheet somewhere so i can know where i fall on this developer spectrum

          • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
            11·
            3 months ago

            It’s going to be your INT bonus modifier, but you can get a feat that also adds the WIS modifier

            For prolonged coding sessions you do need CON saving throws, but you can get advantage from drinking coffee (once per short rest)

            • Ledivin@lemmy.worldEnglish
              8·
              3 months ago

              but you can get advantage from drinking coffee (once per short rest)

              I must have picked up a feat somewhere because I hit that shit way more than once per short rest

        • diz@awful.systemsEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Yeah, the glorious future where every half-as-good-as-expert developer is now only 25% as good as an expert (a level of performance also known as being “completely shit at it”), but he’s writing 10x the amount of unusable shitcode.