Comment by zamalek
23 days ago
> I worry about the "brain atrophy" part, as I've felt this too. And not just atrophy, but even moreso I think it's evolving into "complacency".
Not trusting the ML's output is step one here, that keeps you intellectually involved - but it's still a far cry from solving the majority of problems yourself (instead you only solve problems ML did a poor job at).
Step two: I delineate interesting and uninteresting work, and Claude becomes a pair programmer without keyboard access for the latter - I bounce ideas off of it etc. making it an intelligent rubber duck. [Edit to clarify, a caveat is that] I do not bore myself with trivialities such as retrieving a customer from the DB in a REST call (but again, I do verify the output).
> I do not bore myself with trivialities such as retrieving a customer from the DB in a REST call
Genuine question, why isn't your ORM doing that? I see a lot of use cases for LLMs that seem to be more expensive ways to do snippets and frameworks...
An ORM doesn't generate REST endpoints?