Comment by Chance-Device
1 day ago
Well of course, if you enjoy writing software as a hobby then you value the experience of doing it, and you value the skill involved. You probably want a community of like minded individuals who all write code by hand, and where LLM use would be considered cheating.
That seems as natural as being against doping in sports or marking cards in poker.
None of this is anything against LLMs or AI assisted coding in general, even though the people involved probably have strong feelings about it given their preferences. It’s just the preferences of particular people and communities. Seems reasonable to me.
Yeah, it's just how you see programming in your perspective.
It's like lifting weight. Obviously, machines lift weight much better than human for a long time. But people still trains for strength or aesthetics. Even if machine can lift much larger weight and more efficiently, some people still care about how strong they are.
A machine can lift much more weight obviously is not the excuse for them to stop training.
Programming is just the weight lifting for your brain/mind. Even if LLMs can solve all coding problems perfectly, there will be people who still want to program all by hands, for training their mind, or simply enjoying the process. And there will be people care about how good you are at solving a problem with programming.
LLMs being able to code does not mean you no longer need the ability to code.
Cars do not mean you no longer need the ability to walk.
I don't exactly disagree, but I don't think your analogies work.
Machines can lift more weight than humans, but we all encounter situations where strength is useful and machines aren't available or wouldn't be suited to the task.
Cars are faster and easier than walking, but they require roads and are not a possible substitute for all of the walking we do.
But "if LLMs can solve all coding problems perfectly", and assuming that's sufficiently true of cheap/free models, there will be no practical need to code by hand; it'll be something we do purely for the joy of it and/or as brain training (but a niche form of brain training, probably practically inferior to other forms that target skills we still need).