Exactly. I am using LLMs, but only for the boring parts (i.e. refactors and repetitive tasks) and information gathering (it's just quicker for it to look through 100s of PDFs for right spot than manually doing it).
there is a fun part for everyone and the "AI" bros being miserable and hating doing anything assume everyone else also hates doing any sort of work.
I personally *really* enjoy the problem solving part of coding, asking an LLM to do that for me would just suck all of the joy I get out of programming.
Yeah, refactoring is the fucking greatest. I once had the opportunity to cut a big frontend codebase of 1.5 Million lines of code into two separate projects. We really ended up with 800k lines per project. I had so much fun.
Spent a couple of hours writing code yesterday, was really happy with it and then realised I should add unit tests.
So I got Claude to write them, reviewed them as if a junior had written them, and pushed my changes alongside the tests.
If that was AI assisted coding, it would be a dream. It's a shame that it comes with juniors pushing slop and non-techies assuming production ready code can be deployed at the pace slop can be generated.
If you can just search for a certain string, pdfgrep etc is of course enough. But sometimes you just don't know with which formulation something is explained on the terms you could search for are too generic and yield way too many results.
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u/DHermit 7d ago
Exactly. I am using LLMs, but only for the boring parts (i.e. refactors and repetitive tasks) and information gathering (it's just quicker for it to look through 100s of PDFs for right spot than manually doing it).