Comment by jessekv
1 year ago
I upvoted both you and GP.
There are times when the "programming" job is best done with vim or even just a notebook in a quiet place.
Other times, an LLM or IDE can help get a new project going faster. Especially if you are unfamiliar with the language or framework. But in the latter case, do review the output until you understand it. So far even the best LLM will make subtle bugs, but unless its in a language you know well, you might have a hard time spotting them!
An LLM is like having an over eager junior dev with an eidetic memory who hasn’t slept in a week. It’s a superpower (minus the human rights issue) most of the time unless you’re not keeping an eye on it.
I’ve replaced so many tiny manual processes with python and batch scripts, and rewritten them in go when speed became an issue because of Claude and ChatGPT. I know enough to spot the glaring issue. I’m never going to sit down and write a batch file that installs my toolchain as it’s not done enough to warrant my time. But Claude will, and now our build machines use the same scripts and it means everyone is in the same environment (c++ on windows so our options are limited here)