[bluehatbrit]

I'd be interested to hear how you find staying away from them as the years progress.

My experience so far is that they write mediocre code which is very often correct, and is relatively easy to review and improve. Of course I work with languages like elixir, python, typescript, and SQL - all of which LLMs are very good at.

Without a doubt I've seen a significant increase in the amount of work I can produce. As far as I can tell the defect rate in my work hasn't changed. But the way I work has, I'm now reviewing and refactoring significantly more than before and hand writing a lot less.

To be honest, I'd worry about someone's ability to compete in the job market if they resisted for much longer. With the obvious exceptions of spaces where LLMs can't be used, or have very poor performance.

[shakna]

In my experience, its harder to review.

It'll dump you three classes and a thousand lines of code, where it should use a simple for loop to iterate.

The code Claude, Gemini and Cursor produces still is not enough to pass half-decent quality checks. If you're in "compile=ship", sure.

If you care about performance, or security, or maintainability, no. It's wasting your time, and the review team's time.