alt Hacker NewsLLMs do not actually make anything better for anyone. You have to constantly correct them. It's like having a junior coder under your wing that never learns from its mistakes. I can't imagine anyone actually feeling productive using one to work.
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A junior engineer who might spend a few hours trying to understand why you added a mutex, reading blogs on common patterns, might come back with a question about why you locked it twice in one thread in some case you didn't consider. Just because someone lacks the experience and knowledge you have, doesn't mean they cannot learn and be helpful. Sometimes those with the most to learn are the most willing to put the hours in trying.
You're just bad at using them. It's a skill like anything else. I also suspect bad coders become even worse with LLM's, and the opposite is true.
You need to learn to use the tool better, clearly, if you have such an unhinged take as this.
I don't know what to think about comments like this. So many of them come from accounts that are days or at most weeks old. I don't know if this is astroturfing, or you really are just a new account and this is your experience.
As somebody who has been coding for just shy of 40 years and has gone through the actual pain on learning to run a high level and productive dev team, your experience does not match mine. Even great devs will forget some of the basics and make mistakes and I wish every junior (hell even seniors) were as effective as the LLMs are turning out to be. Put the LLM in the hands of a seasoned engineer who also has the skills to manage projects and mentor junior devs and you have a powerful accelerator. I'm seeing the outcome of that every day on my team. The velocity is up AND the quality is up.