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Comment by zerr

7 hours ago

I code by hand (sigh) and copy paste some snippets once in a while from a web chat LLM. This also means every single line of such snippets gets reviewed and anaylzed. Usually, these are some arcane Win32 API usage where otherwise I'd have to dig into old forums. I don't want to become a prompt engineer so I stay away from "agentic" workflows.

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loeg  6 hours ago

You're missing out, for better or worse.

  • zerr  5 hours ago

    As an engineer, the enjoyment from the process is not less important, or should I say more important, than the enjoyment from shipping a final product.

    • mrweasel  4 hours ago

      That's probably the single thing that I found to be biggest difference between those who are very pro AI vs. those more reserved or negative.

      A colleague has openly stated that he very much does not care for the process, he just want the product. Where I only care about the product in the sense that I have to, because it's my job and for hobbies I pretty much only care about the process. So an LLM pretty much doesn't make sense, because it help by removing the part I care about. They are good tools for debugging and if you're hopelessly stuck on a detail of some weird and obscure API or configuration.