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Comment by jimbob45

20 hours ago

The act of coding preserves your skills for that all-important verification step. No coding and the whole system falls apart.

Exactly, how are you supposed to verify anything when you don't have any skills left beyond prompting.

  • You don't. That's why you don't use an LLM most of the time. I was talking about cases where either the tasks were too boring or required an expertise that I didn't have at the time.

    Thought it was obvious.

    • > or required an expertise that I didn't have at the time

      How do you verify code that you don't have the expertise to write on your own?

Absolutely. That's why I don't give the LLM the reins for long, nor do I tell it to do the whole thing. I want to keep my mind sharp and my abilities honed.