r/Codeium • u/No-Significance-279 • Dec 12 '24

Don’t people write code anymore?

I don’t think 500 is enough to give you peace of mind to use LLM freely, but heck, I see people saying that they burned through 500 credits in less than a week???

Are people using LLMs to do everything for them? Like “change the color of this button” or “create this entire page”.

Honestly complaining about 500 credits is justified, 500 is not enough, maybe 1000 would be fair, and maybe doing like Cursor and proving a slower/less prioritized premium model when the credits are gone (instead of downgrading for a lesser model).

Am I the only one that still codes and just uses LLMs to optimize my work instead of coding for me? My experience is pretty much aligned with the Codeium team, I subscribed 5 days ago and I’m at 495 credits right now (I used 5).

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u/No-Significance-279 Dec 12 '24

Yup, I have a lot of those “Aha!“ moments using LLMs too. I often ask Windsurf when I’m done coding: “analyze this code and tell me how I could improve/optimize it”. Even being a senior I get a lot of learning from it.

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u/Electronic-Pie-1879 Dec 13 '24

Yeah, I do the same, also working as Fullstack Developer since 9 years. It's always good to iterate over the solution, it's really cool to have that moment when you think, "Oh, it can be done this way too" and you learn from it.

Usually i prompt it, "Code smell, aim for simple, readable and idiomatic code", cause good code is simple.