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I feel like this is the big question now. How to find the correct balance that lets you preserve and improve your skills. I haven’t yet found the answer, but I
by jgilias 2y ago
I feel like this is the big question now. How to find the correct balance that lets you preserve and improve your skills. I haven’t yet found the answer, but I feel like it should be in being very deliberate about what you let the agent do, and what kind of work you do in the “artisanal” way, so not even AI-enabled auto-complete.
But in order to be able to find the right balance, one does need to learn fully what the agent can do, and have a lot of experience with that way of coding. Otherwise the mental model is wrong.
- jb_briant 2y agoAgreed. Auto-complete on steroid isn't what I call using LLM for coding. It's just a convenience. What I do is to write pure functions with LLM. Once I designed the software and I have the API, I can tell the model to write a function which does a specific job where I know the inputs and outputs but I'm lazy to write the code itself.