> programming is "what you want to achieve and how" As in linear programming or dynamic programming. > I suspect that there is a strong correlation between pr

> programming is "what you want to achieve and how" As in linear programming or dynamic programming. > I suspect that there is a strong correlation between programmers who don't think that there needs to be a model/theory, and those who are reporting that LLMs are speeding them up. This is an interesting prediction. I think you'll get a correlation regardless of the underlying cause because most programmers don't think there needs to be a model/theory and most programmers report LLMs speeding them up. But if you control for that, there are also some reasons you might expect the opposite to be true. It could be that programmers who feel the least sped up by LLMs are the ones who feel their primary contributing is in writing code rather than having the correct model. And people who view their job as finding the right model are more sped up because the busy work of getting the code in the right order is taken off their plate.