Comment by justbees

"LLMs are very effective at locating and explaining things in complex code bases." YES. I do nothing BUT write code and tracking everything down in the code base is greatly simplified by using an LLM.

This is just a new tool. I think the farming example mentioned in another post is actually a great example. I love coding. I code in my free time. It's just fun. I've been doing it for ~20 years and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon!

But at work I'm really focused on results more than the fun I can have writing code. If a tractor makes the work easier/faster why would I not use a tractor? Breaking my back plowing isn't really my end goal at work. Having a plowed field is my end goal. If I can ride around in a tractor while doing it great! If I can monitor a fleet of tractors that are plowing multiple fields at once even better!

When I go home I can plant anything I want in any way I want and take all the time I want. Of course that's probably why in my free time I end up working on games I never finish...