alt Hacker NewsCall it whatever you want, it helps me get unstuck when my dependencies aren't getting along, or when I need to figure out what's wrong with my usage of an API I'm not familiar with, or why my build won't startup based on the code and the vague error message, etc.
I don't care if it's a human or a robot telling me, I just want to get unstuck and I've been getting unstuck more since the advent of LLMs than in the rest of my programming career. Digging through bad documentation and Googling for old form posts of similar-but-not-quite-the-same-issues was always the worst part of programming to me, and I'm glad there's a tool that finally solved that problem.
i am NOT saying they are not useful; they are. especially in domains you are unfamiliar with, or boilerplate, or when being used by an expert in the loop. but that is NOT the same thing as being an expert.
an expert can write 10 lines of code that will be hyper fast while an LLM will write 30 lines that are super slow. both "will work", but one will fall over under load and will be hard to maintain and the other will not.