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I'm curious how many years you were into your career before LLMs took off. Reading and writing code is just another form of literacy, so I don't get this perspe

I'm curious how many years you were into your career before LLMs took off. Reading and writing code is just another form of literacy, so I don't get this perspective at all. I've been a developer for just over a decade and my usage of LLMs is minimal. It takes a similar amount of time to review as it does to just write it myself. How much time do you have for your tasks? I rarely have deadlines quicker than a few days. It wouldn't even matter if I got it done faster since the bottleneck is decisions in the next meeting or waiting to hear back from another team. Dev time was always trivial and irrelevant. Even back in the 2010s, my need for stackoverflow and google had become minimal. What else are you doing with your time? How much discussion does your team even have if the nuances of the code aren't important to you?

kazinator 2mo ago
If you ship something, by some means, you get blame if it goes wrong. But when it goes right, you can only get credit if you wrote it yourself. If you're risking being blamed, that should be balanced with credit.
skydhash 2mo ago
> Even back in the 2010s, my need for stackoverflow and google had become minimal. Web search engines are mostly for quick navigation this day as a lot of sites don’t bother with a good navigation menu. It’s faster to search the title of the page than to deal with the offered navigation widget. > Reading and writing code is just another form of literacy, so I don't get this perspective at all. Same here. I read and write code just like I read and write English (which is not even my second language). Coding is trivial. Most of the time is spent on communication (with the team and the stakeholder) and on reading documentation (so that you know the implications of using a function or what’s inside an object at a point of time). And even the latter is shortened as you got more familiar with the libraries.

kazinator 2mo ago

If you ship something, by some means, you get blame if it goes wrong. But when it goes right, you can only get credit if you wrote it yourself. If you're risking being blamed, that should be balanced with credit.

skydhash 2mo ago

> Even back in the 2010s, my need for stackoverflow and google had become minimal. Web search engines are mostly for quick navigation this day as a lot of sites don’t bother with a good navigation menu. It’s faster to search the title of the page than to deal with the offered navigation widget. > Reading and writing code is just another form of literacy, so I don't get this perspective at all. Same here. I read and write code just like I read and write English (which is not even my second language). Coding is trivial. Most of the time is spent on communication (with the team and the stakeholder) and on reading documentation (so that you know the implications of using a function or what’s inside an object at a point of time). And even the latter is shortened as you got more familiar with the libraries.