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I find it can speed me up, but it's very easy to become lazy and find myself asking the AI to do things I could do perfectly well myself, quickly and using far less electricity. And then before I know it I have a huge pile of slop that I don't know my way around, and I spend the time on the other end trying to understand and check it all. It feels amazing up front, but you pay later.
For corporate software, there's so many bugfixes and features, which require so few additions/changes that it's faster to do it than to write the prompt.
But obviously only if you're able to hold the entire codebase in your skull, but a proficient developer should be able to do so.
If people begin outsourcing these changes to LLMs, then they're cooked and no longer able to verify the output.
Yeah, it seems like a new type of judgement is needed that I don't normally encounter in a day. Like, I use a hammer to hammer nails, then I put it down. I don't try to cook with it. This tool has a weird, abstract nature to it where you can drift between using / misusing / abusing without necessarily noticing. A strange position to be in while trying to work at the same time .