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by furyofantares 305 days ago
> Today, LLMs make development faster, not better.

You don't have to use them this way. It's just extremely tempting and addictive.

You can choose to talk to them about code rather than features, using them to develop better code at a normal speed instead of worse code faster. But that's hard work.

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Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, but I can't use them that way, hard work or no. It feels like trying to pair program with a half-distracted junior developer.
Why debate anything when everything, everywhere, all the time is actually super great, you are just holding it wrong.
What's the point of that? A skilled developer can already develop high quality code at a normal speed?

I will use AI for suggestions when using an API I'm not familiar with because it's faster than reading all the documentation to figure it the specific function call I need, but I then follow up on the example to verify it's correct and I can confidently read the code. Is that what you're taking about?

A vibe coder without 20+ years of experience can't do that, but they can publish an app or website just the same.