Comment by jimbokun
5 days ago
This is the best compromise for coding with LLMs I’ve seen!
On an old sitcom a teenager decides to cheat on an exam by writing all the answers on the soles of his shoes. But he accidentally learns the material through the act of writing it out.
Similarly, the human will maintain a grasp of all the code and catch issues early, by the mechanical act of typing it all out.
You just reminded me about my math teacher letting us use programs on our TI-83 to cheat on the test if we could type the programs in ourselves. Definitely worked