Comment by kentonv
6 days ago
That's me. I'm the expert.
On my very most productive days of my entire career I've managed to produce ~1000 lines of code. This library is ~5000 (including comments, tests, and documentation, which you omitted for some reason). I managed to prompt it out of the AI over the course of about five days. But they were five days when I also had a lot of other things going on -- meetings, chats, code reviews, etc. Not my most productive.
So I estimate it would have taken me 2x-5x longer to write this library by hand.
Would you have gotten to be where you are now, if AI would've always been there writing this code for you?
Would you have been able to review it for its faults, had you not experienced the pain of committing some of them yourself, or been warned by your peers of the same?
Would you have become the senior expert that you are if that had been your learning process?