[godelski]

Sure, I agree.

When in the "move fast and break things" phase, yeah, LLMs can be useful. But do you ever move out to clear the tech debt or do you just always break things and leave a mess behind?

The issue is that it all depends. If something doesn't matter, then yeah, who fucking cares how inefficient or broken it is. But if it does, it's probably better to go the slow way because that knowledge will compound and be important later. You are going to miss lessons. Maybe you don't need them, maybe you don't need them now. It depends and is hard so say. But I would say that for juniors, it is bad to become reliant upon LLMs.

It's dangerous in exactly the same way as having a solution manual. They can be quite useful and make you learn a lot faster. OR they can completely rob you of the learning experience. It all depends how you use it, right? And for what purpose. That's the point I'm trying to get across.

  > it took me an entire week to figure out I was missing some quotes around $@ when passing arguments from one script to the next

This is a common issue, and one I faced too (though not that long). But it also led to more understanding. I learned a lot more about the quotes and variable passing. If someone had just given me the answer, I wouldn't have gotten the rest. Don't undermine the utility of second order effects.