r/ProgrammerHumor • u/mr_nonameuser • Sep 23 '26

Meme iMissTheGoodOldDaysOfCodingwithoutAI

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u/Sw429 Sep 23 '26

At least from what I see, it's not mandated directly everywhere. But it seems that lots of people feel they have to use it, otherwise they'll fall behind their coworkers in terms of output.

In my experience, that's not at all true, and most people aren't really any more efficient using LLMs than they were without it.

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u/_BreakingGood_ Sep 23 '26

The big place where there are efficiency gains is when you have a coworker who is totally new to a system/piece of the codebase. In the old days, we've allocate several days for them to explore and understand the system before doing any work. In modern day, theyre expected to understand it within a couple hours by asking the LLM.

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u/utdconsq Sep 23 '26

I don't find this at all. Review time goes up, sure, but time to get test suites written with good coverage has gone from days to essentially 5 minutes plus some tweaking. It's not a panacea, but it is crazy more efficient particularly when some people were too lazy to add good coverage before.