Comment by someothherguyy
6 days ago
Also, professional programmers have varying needs. These people are coding in different languages, with varying complexity, domains, existing code bases and so on.
People making arguments based on sweeping generalizations to a wide audience are often going to be perceived as delusional, as their statements do not apply universally to everyone.
To me, thinking LLMs can code generally because you have success with them and then telling others they are wrong in how they use them is making a gigantic assumptive leap.
I just assume every blog post in HN starts with “As a web dev, TITLE”