Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Effective use of AI coding tools requires domain expertise: the tool should be used as an assistant, not as a replacement for the engineer.
Drawn from what Mitchell Hashimoto said
Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Mitchell Hashimoto said
This is intentional and I believe good AI drivers are experts in their domains and utilize AI as an assistant, not a replacement.
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Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?
I hold this tooIn tension with
Between two graduates in any field, he would hire the one who is expert at using AI.
Huang would hire the graduate who is expert at using AI over the one who is not, in any field. Hashimoto says effective use of these tools requires domain expertise, and that the tool is an assistant rather than a replacement for the engineer. If the second is right, "expert at using AI" is not a quality a graduate can have separately from being expert at something.
In tension with
Ptacek’s fraction is large enough to reshape the job. Hashimoto’s condition is that the human already holds the domain expertise the tool is assisting. Both can be true of different developers, and which one is typical is the disagreement.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.