A very very senior game developer recently told me how he is changing specialization because AI is much better than him at what he does already.
I asked him if it was just the speed and mass of code, to which he replied that Claude 5 Fable/Mythos is just so advanced, it comes up with solutions he would never have thought of, not even requiring good prompts anymore.
He further said in some areas like Unity it's not perfect yet, but improving drastically.
Honestly this is pretty different to what I read in many articles regarding AI code.
They mentioned errors, bad performance & such.
However if it is already used in production and he as a professional evaluating it, is saying it's better than him...
That same day I also talked to somebody that got hired to train an LLM. His interview was with that companies chatbot, that offered him over 120$ per hour, a roughly 500% increase from his previous job š¤£
The nature of LLM being trained on all available data and being based on statistical inference means that if it were actually a perfect system, it would be exactly of average (50th percentile) skill level. That would mean that for half the people, LLMs would be better at the job.
Of course it's not a perfect system so it's not even close to 50th percentile, however it's probably still going to be better than a solid bunch of devs. I had multiple people at previous jobs before LLMs that were a net negative on productivity.
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