alt Hacker News> I can't run 80 mph but I can drive a car that fast
If you drive a car 80mph you don't get to claim you are a good runner
Similarly if you use an LLM to generate 10k lines of code, you don't get to claim you are a good programmer
Regardless of the outcome being the "same"
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elliotbnvl • 04/24/2025
You do get to claim that you’re a good getting-places-er, though, which is the only point of commercial programming.
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LLMs aren't that productive. 10k lines from it, is a lot of troubleshooting, from all kinds of errors. Enough so, that one would still do better without it. Not saying LLMs don't have their place or can't be helpful, but they aren't where many imagine them to be, when it comes to programming.