[antonvs]

I do the same thing, except if I hate something, I just ask the LLM to fix it. I can usually get to a starting point I'm pretty happy with, then I take over.

After that, I may ask an LLM to write particular functions, giving it data types and signatures to guide it.

[nativeit]

Does this sound like a fulfilling career to literally anyone?

[antonvs]

I’m enjoying it - I wouldn’t be doing it otherwise. Perhaps you misunderstood me - I’m using it to automate things that are easy enough to do but time-consuming and generally uninteresting. It’s a useful assistant.

You could make the same comment about managers - does management sound like a fulfilling career to literally anyone (to some, it doesn’t!) Or about working on a team, where colleagues do work that you depend on.

It’s also very similar to the situation with compilers and interpreters for high level languages. An assembly language or machine language programmer might ask “does writing in a high level language sound like a fulfilling career to literally anyone?”

This all makes me suspect that your comment is coming from a place where you’ve already reached a conclusion and are now looking for excuses to justify it. Typical change resistance, essentially.