> the model chokes, starts hallucinating, and makes your job considerably harder.
Coincidentally this also happens with developers in unfamiliar territory.
Coincidentally this also happens with developers in unfamiliar territory.
I'd like to think most developers know how to say "I don't know, let's do some research" but in reality, many probably just take a similar approach to the LLM - feign competence and just hack out whatever is needed for today's goal, don't worry about tomorrow.
Really smart junior developers actually have a shot at learning better and moving on from this stage.