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[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 33 points 19 hours ago (23 children)

So there are multiple people in this thread who state their job is to unfuck what the LLMs are doing. I have a family member who graduated in CS a year ago and is having a hell of a time finding work, how would he go about getting one of these "clean up after the model" jobs?

[–] CodeMonkey@programming.dev 14 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

No idea, but I am not sure your family member is qualified. I would estimate that a coding LLM can code as well as a fresh CS grad. The big advantage that fresh grads have is that after you give them a piece of advice once or twice, they stop making that same mistake.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 hours ago

Where is this coming from? I don't think an LLM can code at the level of a recent cs grad unless it's piloted by a cs grad.

Maybe you've had much better luck than me, but coding LLMs seem largely useless without prior coding knowledge.

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