[seba_dos1]

> Unless you are only ever a single engineer, your career is filled with "I need to debug code I didn't write".

That's the vast majority of my job and I've yet to find a way to have LLMs not be almost but not entirely useless at helping me with it.

(also, it's filled with that even when you are a single engineer)

[fragmede]

And even if you are the single engineer, I'll be honest, it might as well have been somebody else that wrote the code if I have to go back to something I did seven years ago and unearth wtf.

[kaydub]

I hope you realize that means your position is in danger.

[seba_dos1]

It would be in danger if LLMs could actually do that for me, but they're still very far from it and they progress slowly. One day I could start worrying, but it's not today.

[selfmodruntime]

We have yet to see any large codebase that LLMs work on for a long time.

[rsynnott]

Eh? If all the things that LLMs are not very good at (a long list), they are particularly not good at debugging.