Post #45737

2025-12-09 16:09 UTC

The LLM comparison to a team of human developers is a great example. But like outsourcing your development, LLM is less a tool and more just delegation. And yes, you can dig in deep to understand all the stuff the LLM is delegated to do the same as you can get deeply involved with a human development team to maintain an understanding. But most of the time, the sell is that you can save time - which means you aren’t expecting to micro manage your development team. It is a fractional CTO problem but the actual issue is that developers are being demanded to become fractional CTOs by using LLM because they are being measured by expected productivity increases that limit time for understanding.

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@MangoCats@feddit.it 2025-12-09 16:37

the sell is that you can save time How do you know when salespeople (and lawyers) are lying? It’s only when their lips are moving. developers are being demanded to become fractional CTOs by using LLM because they are being measured by expected productivity increases that limit time for understanding. That’s the kind of thing that works out in the end. Like outsourcing to Asia, etc. It does work for some cases, it can bring sustainable improvements to the bottom line, but nowhere near as fast or easy or cheaply as the people selling it say.

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@Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-09 16:55

thats an interesting take, developers are demanded to also become fractional CTO, there is probably a larger than estimated knowledge and experience gap there and unless you have the knack for managing people you probably run into more problems that you are used to being a code jockey

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