If you use LLMs in lieu of searching Stack Overflow, you're going to go faster and be neither smarter nor dumber. If you're prompting for entire functions, I suspect it'll be a crutch you learn to rely on forever.
Personally I think there's a middle ground to be had there.
I use LLMs to write entire test functions, but I also have specs for it to work from and can go over what it wrote and verify it. I never blindly go "yeah this test is good" after it generates it.
I think that's the middle ground, knowing where, and when it can handle a full function / impl vs a single/multi(short) line auto-completion.
I use LLMs to write entire test functions, but I also have specs for it to work from and can go over what it wrote and verify it. I never blindly go "yeah this test is good" after it generates it.
I think that's the middle ground, knowing where, and when it can handle a full function / impl vs a single/multi(short) line auto-completion.