I’ve seen a few articles saying that instead of hating AI, the real quiet programmers young and old are loving it and have a renewed sense of purpose coding with llm helpers (this article was also hating on ed zitiron, which makes sense why it would).
Is this total bullshit? I have to admit, even though it makes me ill, I’ve used llms a few times to help me learn simple code syntax quickly (im and absolute noob who’s wanted my whole life to learn code but cant grasp it very well). But yes, a lot of time its wrong.
Some definitely are. But I think a lot aren’t. Hell, a lot of programmers still don’t even use an IDE.
I don’t know why it would make you ill.
The same reason I wont use autotune or melodyne. Its just gross to me.
I don’t feel like it’s the same - autotune can make me more in tune than I could ever achieve. Current LLMs definitely can’t write better code than me, they can just do it faster.