Comment by seba_dos1
19 days ago
> Unless you are only ever a single engineer, your career is filled with "I need to debug code I didn't write".
That's the vast majority of my job and I've yet to find a way to have LLMs not be almost but not entirely useless at helping me with it.
(also, it's filled with that even when you are a single engineer)
And even if you are the single engineer, I'll be honest, it might as well have been somebody else that wrote the code if I have to go back to something I did seven years ago and unearth wtf.
I hope you realize that means your position is in danger.
It would be in danger if LLMs could actually do that for me, but they're still very far from it and they progress slowly. One day I could start worrying, but it's not today.
We have yet to see any large codebase that LLMs work on for a long time.
Eh? If all the things that LLMs are not very good at (a long list), they are particularly not good at debugging.