[auggierose]

I learnt programming on my own, without any social interaction involved. In fact, I loved programming because it does not involve any social interaction.

Programming has become more of a "social game" in the last 15 years or so. AI is a new superpower for people like me, bringing balance to the Force.

[layer8]

To me, LLMs are just a different kind of social interaction I mostly don’t want, tedious and frustrating.

[auggierose]

But it is not a social interaction. An LLM is a machine.

I think there is also a big difference between being forced to use an LLM in a certain way, and being able to completely design your interaction with the LLM yourself. The former I imagine can be indeed tedious and frustrating, the latter is just miraculous.

[layer8]

No one is forcing me to use LLMs, so that’s not it. The interaction is social in the sense that it is natural-language based and nondeterministic, and that LLMs exhibit a certain “character”. They have been trained to mimic certain kinds of human social interaction.

[auggierose]

It probably also depends on what your favourite weapon of choice is. Mine was always written language, and code is just a particular manifestation of it.