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I hate to break it to you but o1 is like far off of anything what you describe. Yesterday, I was testing some stuff and told it in very precise prompt to write a dripping bucket rate limiting middleware and it just literally named a var “bucket” with a timeout and then implemented something that will wait for the next function to timeout!

I then said, heh and asked it to implement a circuit breaker pattern using axios, and it again implemented a timeout and added it to axios options!

Could be am dumb or o1 was hallucinating on me intentionally, but the thing is very far away from a Jr dev fresh out of college.

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very far away from a Jr dev fresh out of college

Feels like your Jr position claims 3 YoE in hardcore backend. Last time I’ve seen them, they discussed == vs === and “in” vs “of”. Wouldn’t hold my breath asking them to implement a rate limiter mw or any sort of debouncer. Unless humanity boosted their average intelligence very recently, ofc, where you’re an async networking specialist fresh outta school.

I think, my “very far away” was misunderstood. What I meant is that, a junior dev will hopefully go and do some research and try to find some reliable info before trying to implement something, while o1 just spits out statistical matches.

o1 is very far away from being a Jr dev replacement and is actually slightly more useful(if I ignore the costs entirely) than the existing intelligent autcomplete features.

Depends on the jr dev. You have the actual devs which develop solutions and the jrs who grow out to these roles. But I’ve been in plenty a company with just a bunch of code monkeys as well to write unit tests, boilerplate and center divs.

They are definitely being replaced by ChatGPT in our company. Think of it what you will, several teams write all their unit tests with ChatGPT now instead..

It's interesting how many folks assume everyone is using LLMs the same way they are to have comparable results (or not)

I don't even understand half those words. And I'm human btw.

It is fine, if those terms are not relevant to you. We learn when we need to. My point was that, a Jr dev will do some research and then try to implement a solution, while o1 being praised as immediately replacement of Jr devs is not even close and only shows as much correct implementation as its training data.

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