alt Hacker NewsSure. But it happens that I have 20 years of experience, and I know quite well how to code. Everything the LLM does for me I can do myself. But the LLM does that 100 times faster than me. Most of the days nowadays I push thousands of lines of code. And it's not garbage code, the LLMs write quite high quality code. Of course, I still have to go through the code and make sure it all makes sense. So I am still the bottleneck. At some point I will probably grown to trust the LLM, but I'm not quite there yet.
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If you have 20 years of experience, then you know that number of lines of codes is always inversely proportional to code quality.
> ...thousands of lines of code ... quite high quality
A contradiction in terms.
it is, mind you, exactly the same experience as working on a team with lots of junior engineers, and delegating work to them
> Most of the days nowadays I push thousands of lines of code
Insane stuff. It’s clear you can’t review so much changes in a day, so you’re just flooding your code base with code that you barely read.
Or is your job just re-doing the same boilerplate over and over again?