Comment by pojzon

Coding will take 4 times less time, but review will take almost the same amount of time if not more if the solution does not worl out of the box or has unforseen corner cases.

LLMs were trained on public code libraries and unfortunately most pf that OSS code is garbage.

There are ofcourse raisins there, but those are far in between.

Top it off with hallucinations and suddenly you spend more time debugging messy AI code when you could write the same in a fraction of that time.

The easier the task, the better job LLMs do, the harder the task the worse results you get.

Source: working with those tools daily.

Using your analogy:

- by car it will be 30km uphill, coz of how the road is built

- walking it will be 1km straight line