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by quantumHazer 437 days ago
As a student, I use LLMs as little as possible and try to rely on books whenever possible. I sometimes ask LLMs questions about things that don't click, and I fact-check their responses. For coding, I'm doing the same. I'm just raw dogging the code like a caveman because I have no corporate deadlines, and I can code whatever I want. Sometimes I get stuck on something and ask an LLM for help, always using the web interface rather than IDEs like Cursor or Windsurf. Occasionally, I let the LLMs write some boilerplate for boring things, but it's really rare and I tend not to use them too much. This isn't due to Luddism but because I want to learn, and I don't want slop in my way.