[waltbosz]

This is true. I've been using LLMs for code generation, and it does stuff I don't understand well. Also it makes mistakes, bugs.

What I do find helpful is use it to ask for suggestions for how to achieve some result, then learn from the code it gives me.

But even then, going back to this code later is difficult because I didn't go through that period of the failure research success learning loop.

[mcny]

Maybe at the high end of the talent but most of us are already there. I wouldn't admit this to my manager but a lot of the time if you made me explain what actually happens at the machine level, I have no idea.

[waltbosz]

I think there is an acceptable level of black boxedness in our profession.