Comment by puttycat
6 days ago
> An LLM can be instructed to just figure all that shit out. Often, it will drop you precisely at that golden moment where shit almost works, and development means tweaking code and immediately seeing things work better.
Well, except that in order to fix that 1% you'd need to read and understand whatever the LLM did and then look for that 1%. I get the shills just thinking about this, whether the original programmer was human or not. I'd rather just write everything myself to begin with.
Reading code is vastly quicker than writing it from scratch.
This is a lie, unless you are just speaking of the mechanics of cursorily skimming it. Reading code to understand it enough to commit it in my name is harder and slower than writing it myself.
So you don’t use any libraries in your code?
How about reading documentation?
Or reviewing PRs?
Or go through source code to build out new features?
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Firstly, you are not the other poster, so I don't know how you can say it's a lie with conviction.
Second, reading code to understand it is a skill that you need to practice to get better at. That might be your issue.
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But creating a mental model and then interacting with it is slower than interacting with a mental model you already have.