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The only advantage AI code assistants have over competent humans is speed in generating code. But speed doesn’t matter. When code is going to live for several
by deadbabe 2y ago
The only advantage AI code assistants have over competent humans is speed in generating code.
But speed doesn’t matter. When code is going to live for several years, no one will care if it took minutes to create vs a week.
If you are an incompetent human, you might never be able to generate the same code some LLM generates. This will cause you to sing it’s praises and worship the LLM as your savior.
In general, there is a correlation between weak developers and how hyped they are by LLM coding assistants.
- AnimalMuppet 2y ago> When code is going to live for several years, no one will care if it took minutes to create vs a week. No, but... if it took minutes instead of a week, that leaves you the rest of the week to create N more things. That matters, and may still matter in several years.
- deadbabe 2y agoThere are not N more things to create. It’s better to focus on making the things you do make as good as possible. And even if there were N more things, you’re creating NxN maintenance issues at an overwhelming rate.