alt Hacker News> It’s more than just typing though. A simple example remembering the exact incantation of CSS classes to style something that you can easily describe in plain English.
Do that enough and you won't know enough about your codebase to recognise errors in the LLM output.
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groby_b • yesterday at 1:49 PM
That's a bold assertion without any proof.
It also means you're so helpless as a developer that you could never debug another person's code, because how would you recognize the errors, you haven't made them yourself.
imo a question is, do you still need to understand the codebase? What if that process changes and the language you’re reading is a natural one instead of code?