Comment by thiht

As a developer, I do try to use LLMs in my daily work, and I get a slight productivity boost, but I wouldn’t say it’s a spike. It helps me write tests faster, it helps me write pure functions faster, and it helps me autocomplete some documentation faster. It also helps me go faster with 1-time fixes, for db data migration queries or stuff like that.

That said, LLMs in code editor come with some kind of "hyperactivity" which I find really unpleasant. They’re too "in your face", make the code move a lot and sometimes make it a bit harder to focus than without LLM. They can also be extremely frustrating and result in productivity loss, for example when they generate code that’s slightly wrong and you need to take some time to fix it. It’s harder than just writing the code.