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.
I use it to vet ideas, concepts, approaches, and paradigms. It’s amazing for rubber ducking. I don’t use it for wholesale code gen though.
And as a documentation companion it’s pretty rad. Not always right but generally gets things in the correct direction.