Comment by yubblegum
6 hours ago
> [In my day job working with LLMs] The bulk of my time is spent reviewing
This is depressing. I've been out of the field since Covid (after decade_s of work) and basically have to get back to work since kitty is gone, but this is definitely what I signed up for when I started on this career in software engineering.
If I'm gonna be reviewing all day, I'd rather manage humans rather than LLMs. How is it affecting managing engineering teams?
> If I'm gonna be reviewing all day...
I think the point is:
Pre-LLM: 1. think, 2. write code & check, 3. review.
LLM: 1. think, 2. write prompt, <LLM writes code quickly>, 3. review.
If the thing that you enjoy about programming is writing code, you can have the LLM write code in the style you like. If you enjoyed getting to explore and understand a system, an LLM can help you do that quicker, too.
"Use LLM without thinking" won't get you substantially useful results.