[Barrin92]

>but I hate that we're moving to a world where coding costs a subscription

I mean you don't need to if you don't want to. I am gainfully employed as a software developer and what I do everyday is literally just fire up Emacs on my Linux machine and write code. To this day I haven't figured out what llms are supposed to do that a bunch of yasnippets don't.

Just like five years ago most of my day is reading and debugging code, I'm not limited by how fast I can type.

[handfuloflight]

You're definitely limited by how fast you can read and understand.

[svantana]

True, but the jury is still out whether text generators help out with either of those.

[anonzzzies]

Understand probably not, but they can read bizarrely fast and write a summary of what things do very fast ; maybe not 100% accurately but close enough to be of value when trying to understand a large bag of code fast.

[handfuloflight]

The jury which only has you as a member, obviously.

[Gormo]

Is there some alternative, though? Using an LLM might speed up writing code, but obviously can't speed up reading and interpreting it.