Comment by alexjplant
1 month ago
When I used Copilot autocomplete more I noticed myself slipping a bit when it comes to framework and syntax particulars so I instituted a moratorium on it on Fridays to prevent this.
Claude Code seems to be a much better paradigm. For novel implementations I write code manually while asking it questions. For things that I'm prototyping I babysit it closely and constantly catch it doing things that I don't want it to do. I ask it questions about why it built things certain ways and 80% of the time it doesn't have a good answer and redoes it the way that I want. This takes a great deal of cognitive engagement.
Rule nombre [sic] uno: Never anthropomorphize the LLM. It's a giant pattern-matching machine. A useful one, but still just a machine. Do not let it think for you because it can't.
4b-model take. LLMs are far more intelligent than you give them credit for. Every new layer of abstraction allows us to develop software better and faster. People constantly ragged on OOP yet it is the foundation of modern computing. People while about "bloat" but continue to buy more RAM. Compilers are a black box and meaningfully inhibit your ability to write asm but these days nobody cares. I see LLMs as the next logical evolution in computing abstractions.