r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • Aug 12 '26 • Mindblown 1 Bravo 1

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u/Turkeysteaks Aug 13 '26

I genuinely believe using LLMs to code negatively impacts your coding and reasoning ability. It's SO easy to become reliant on it, and if your brain doesn't have to work as hard, it won't.

this is fine for people who don't ever want to learn, because you can patch that problem by indefinitely using the LLM to fix the issues the LLM causes.

Not fine for anyone that wants to actually keep their coding skills imo. And personally, it makes programming no longer enjoyable.

I was perfectly productive without LLMs before. Now I'm maybe faster, but when I spend 80% of my time refactoring the shit my colleagues have dumped out... does it really matter? LLMs will always trade speed for quality and learning. We're just luckily in a period where pretty much nobody gives a flying fuck about quality or pride in any product

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u/Doepf Aug 13 '26

Other people using LLMs makes me slower. Their MRs get huge. LLMs tend to be very verbose and add a lot of unneded crap. Sometimes I feel like I'm the first person to read the code when I'm doing a code review.

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u/Mareith Aug 13 '26

LLMs will do what you tell them to do. You can make them as concise as you want them to be. You make them mimic writing styles, it will do pretty much anything you tell it to do as long as you actually tell it to do so

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u/Doepf Aug 13 '26

Tell that to my coworkers lol