Comment by pton_xd
6 days ago
This mirrors my experience and those I've talked to.
LLM assisted coding is a way to get stuff done much faster, at a greatly increased mental cost / energy spent. Oddly enough.
6 days ago
This mirrors my experience and those I've talked to.
LLM assisted coding is a way to get stuff done much faster, at a greatly increased mental cost / energy spent. Oddly enough.
The small dopamine hits you get from "it compiles" are completely automated away, and you're forced to survive on the goal alone. The issues are necessarily complex and require thinking about how the LLM has gotten it subtly wrong.
Painful, but effective?
> Oddly enough.
i actually dont find that outcome odd at all. The high cognative demand comes from the elimination of spurious busy work that would normally come with coding (things like syntax sugars, framework outline, and such). If an AI takes care of all of these things, and lets an author "code" at the speed of thought, you'd be running your engine at maximum.
Not to mention the need to also critically look at the generated code to ensure it's actual correctness (hopefully this can also be helped/offloaded by an ai in the future).