Comment by brulard
5 days ago
> But often prompting is more complex than programming something. It may be more complex, but it is in my opinion better long term. We need to get good at communicating with AIs to get results that we want. Forgive me assuming that you probably didn't use these assistants long enough to get good at using them. I'm web developer for 20 years already and AI tools are multiplying my output even in problems I'm very good at. And they are getting better very quickly.
Yep, it looks like LLMs are used as fast typists, and coincidentally in webdev typing speed is the most important bottleneck when you need to add cookie consent, spinners, dozens of ad providers, tracking pixels, twitter metadata, google metadata, manual rendering, buttons web components with material design and react, hover panels, fontawesome, recaptcha, and that's only 1% of modern web boilerplate, then it's easy to see how a fast typist can help you.