People who have skill can do the same without LLMs, maybe slightly slower on average but on more predictable schedule.
replyI wouldn’t say slightly slower; LLMs are massively useful for software engineering in the right hands.
replyFor some personal projects I still stick to the basics and write everything by hand though. It’s kinda nice and grounding; and almost feels like a detox.
For any new software engineer, I’m a strong advocate of zero LLM use (except maybe as a stack overflow alternative) for your first few months.
The chat UX with a fake-human lying to you and framing things emotionally really doesn’t help. And it is pretty much not possible to get away from it, or at least I haven’t found yet how.
replyI would love to see a model trained to behave way more like a tool instead of auto-completing from Reddit language patterns…