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I refused to use ratcheting spanners and air tools and other useful things when working on cars or bikes. I was so very wrong. There is a time and place for a

I refused to use ratcheting spanners and air tools and other useful things when working on cars or bikes. I was so very wrong. There is a time and place for an air powered ratchet or big rattle gun. To think “my muscles will atrophy and I’ll stop thinking of clever ways to loosen that thing” is just wrong. It’s confusing the desired outcome with the method. I did resist copilot up until recently and now laugh at myself. Use it to power through the boring template crap and leave yourself the juicy morsels. It’s faster and more satisfying.

theshrike79 2y ago
Advanced tools are really useful when you get to the intermediate level. Then you can speed up the boring stuff and spend more time on advanced things and learning. There is still value for beginners to do things the hard way for a while. Write the unit tests by hand, see how they all repeat the same pattern 90% of the time. Now you see the pattern and you can use LLM-assisted intellisense to speed it up. And because you know how they're supposed to look like, you can see when the LLM goes off the rails.
zahlman 2y ago
> I did resist copilot up until recently and now laugh at myself. Use it to power through the boring template crap and leave yourself the juicy morsels. I don't want a tool to help me power through the boring template crap. I don't want to power through the boring template crap. I don't want the boring template crap to exist. I want to be actively working on things that make the boring template crap cease to exist.