Can you explain what you are working on?

I’ve stopped using llms to generate architecture, which i design and write myself and let the machine pattern match the gaps. I also use it to review issues which I lot of the times push back against.

I’m working on a stateful application sitting on top of a data warehouse and have to implement a stream of messy half defined feature requests and navigate on top of an ever changing infrastructure layer. LLMs rarely get the infra layer even if it is written as code and have hard time grasping how to deal with tech debt, when and how to re-architecture parts of the stack or even implement stuff based on a detailed openspec design.

How do you improve, if you don't write code? How do you aim to close that gap, that is the 10 different ways of improving your code? And if you don't aim to improve, how do you deem yourself capable of even reviewing AI code in say 3 to 5 years, when your code writing skill has fully atrophied?

If AI is generating better code than you can, that does say a lot. I've tried various AI's available and outside of being a better Google or a fast reference for Stack Overflow; LLM's do not generate better code nor better running code.

To be honest, as you know, background knowledge is extremely important in programming. As you move into complex domains, the specifications multiply. So as a domain gets more complex, there comes a point where it exceeds my cognitive capacity. And that's when AI surpasses me and writes code I can't keep up with.

Usually, it produces code that would take three or four humans days to figure out—in just 20 minutes.

Even the professors and PhDs who hire me all use AI. Honestly, they hold PhDs and professorships, which puts them in a league I can't even touch—and even they use it. AI just does it really well.

Honestly, I learned from your book, 'rossant'—I never expected a programmer like you to say something like that. I thought my perspective was because I'm only an intermediate-level programmer. But you're in the 1% expert category I mentioned