A good way of thinking about companies like Proton or Anthropic that proudly declare they're using LLMs to code is that ...

A good way of thinking about companies like Proton or Anthropic that proudly declare they're using LLMs to code is that they've declared "we're replacing all of our junior engineers with unpaid interns from a temp agency." The unpaid interns have photographic memories and have memorized all of the code on github, but they're still pretty clueless and clumsy, and they also have zero loyalty to the company, zero ability to learn from mistakes, and zero understanding of or interest in the actual purpose of what they're building (actually, this comparison is unfair to interns on average, think of the least motivated and curious intern you've ever worked with).The remaining staff at these companies become managers, but in the most frustrating possible way, since the agents they're managing constantly mess stuff up and have been made incapable of learning from their mistakes. Their working memory is actually pretty limited too, so if your instructions get too complicated, they start forgetti...