alt Hacker NewsI still exclusively write my code. The quality is higher. I know exactly how it works. It’s more extensible. You don’t have to generate it.
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sph • today at 5:59 AM
In fact, not many people know that these days, but a human doing a thing by bashing their head against it, often tends to improve. My hand-written code is my best yet. My breadth of knowledge, wider than ever.
bigstrat2003 • today at 5:55 AM
In fact, it's better not to generate it imo. Like you said the quality is higher, and by the time I get done reviewing the LLM's output I haven't really saved time over just doing it myself. LLMs are only useful for things you can verify extremely quickly (like a short script), or for things where you don't care about the quality.
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But the attraction of LLM code is not that you get quality.
The selling point is that you know have a quality Vs time tradeoff that is a lot better than you used to have.
I can spend 10 seconds typing out a prompt that will generate ok code.
Before a couple of years ago, it might have taken me an hour to type out and debug that code.