Mixed
LLM based dev is both amazing in the legit force multiplier it adds to writing code as well as the way it introduces some of the most incoherent and silly ways it breaks existing conventions
prescriptivist on Hacker News
A year ago... once a month. These days it's a couple times a week.
In the thread “The reality of working in tech: We're not hired to write code (2023)”
Helped: Force multiplier for writing code volume.
Got in the way: Hallucinations break CI tooling in pathological ways.
… These days it's a couple times a week. LLM based dev is both amazing in the legit force multiplier it adds to writing code as well as the way it introduces some of the most incoherent and silly ways it breaks existing conventions. I guess the headline is correct in that we are not hired to write code anymore, instead we are hired to shepherd code now, and a lot of it. …