Comment by ath3nd

> I don't get it. I guess I'm getting old. "Grandpa let me write the prompt, you write it like this".

It's not you getting old (although we all are), it's that you are probably already experienced and can produce better and more relevant code than the mid-to-low quality code produced by any LLM even with the best prompting.

Just so we are clear, in the only current actual study measuring productivity of experienced developers using an LLM so far, it actually led to a 19% decline in productivity. So there is a big chance that you are an experienced dev, and the ones that do experience a bump in productivity are the less experienced devs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44858641

The current LLM hype reminds me of the Scrum/Agile hype where people could swear that it works for them and it if didn't for you, you were not following some scrum ritual right. It's the same with LLMs, apparently you are not asking nicely enough and giving writing 4000 lines of pseudocode and specs to produce 1 line of well written code. LLM coding is the new Scrum: useful to an extent and in moderation, but once they become a cult, you better not engage and let it die out on its own.

There will be a whole industry of prompting "experts", prompting books, the same as there were different crops of SCRUM, SAFe, and who knows what else. All we can do is sit on the sidelines and laugh.