alt Hacker NewsCompilers don't take away the code we need to write; they translate it into a different formal language that emphasizes and de-emphasizes various aspects of its meaning.
LLMs are categorically a different thing. Instead of soundly translating between formal languages, they adjust how you interact with the formal language.
The enjoyment people get from coding has absolutely nothing to do with the pure volume of code they produce, to the point that this has long been a cliche!
> LLMs are categorically a different thing. Instead of soundly translating between formal languages, they adjust how you interact with the formal language.
Yeah, equating LLMs with compilers is sloppy thinking (though, I'm sure some sloppy thinkers will defend to death). It's an over-eager pattern match, not everything that takes input and produces output is the same kind of thing.
I bet in our new AI utopia, we'll get more sloppy thinking. All kinds of people will be talking about how they used to think, but now they "no longer have to do it."