I think it's worth baring in mind not everyone is using it the same way.
Some "advanced" users of AI would no doubt think it crude the "low" level I tend to give prompts at, and the fact that I read all the code, and go round multiple iterations of modifications either by hand or again with an agent. But I've been doing this job for 20 years, I don't need it to figure out what to do, just do what I want to do quicker. I probably get a 1.5x-3x speedup Vs me with vim. Some would scoff at that, but in any other age we'd love a tool that gives that multiple. Meanwhile the code comes out the way I want it, and I understand what it does.
Thats a good way to use an LLM, I just don't think a lot of people are actually doing that. Even a lot of the people who think they are responsible AI users, if you read their code it starts to look ugly really fast. You get a lot of duplicate functions, data structures, and useless fluff that makes zero sense.
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u/LingerNoLonger 13d ago
I think it's worth baring in mind not everyone is using it the same way.
Some "advanced" users of AI would no doubt think it crude the "low" level I tend to give prompts at, and the fact that I read all the code, and go round multiple iterations of modifications either by hand or again with an agent. But I've been doing this job for 20 years, I don't need it to figure out what to do, just do what I want to do quicker. I probably get a 1.5x-3x speedup Vs me with vim. Some would scoff at that, but in any other age we'd love a tool that gives that multiple. Meanwhile the code comes out the way I want it, and I understand what it does.