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This results in short term gains of being able to deliver something quickly, but the devs who used LLMs did not learn anything. The value for a developer is no
by orev 2y ago
This results in short term gains of being able to deliver something quickly, but the devs who used LLMs did not learn anything.
The value for a developer is not in simply flipping a piece of code into production, it’s in learning how to find the documentation, how to dig through it to find the functions they need, how to chase down the chain of dependencies for the input and outputs, and all the other incidental exposure they get to related information they might not need for this specific request but may be relevant in the future.
While a company may not care and just wants to ship code, this is talking about what developers lose, not what companies lose. Also a company focused on this type of short term gain is losing the ability to have someone ready to find problems when the code doesn’t work as expected.