alt Hacker NewsBut this way you move way slowly even on personal projects, like you will not even get the basic UI for the app done in a few days? Is that OK for you?
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Depends what they're doing... I can crack out a basic UI in a few hours at my job, and I don't use LLMs at all, and I wouldn't class myself as an expert developer or anything
AKA preventing cognitive debt
Do you really find your typing speed to be the bottleneck in getting things done? I suppose that's pretty easily fixed, at least.
Anyway the author did address that
> Using LLMs this way allows me to work faster than not using LLMs at all, but I'm still slower than those who are willing to allow the machine to think for them. Instead of being 10x faster, I'm probably only 2x faster. But what I lose out on in terms of speed, I gain in terms of a deeper understanding of my code.
It is meant to offset not knowing why everything degrades and you can't make progress after the first month. Is that OK for you?