[blinkbat]

but all of that said, when is the last time you TRULY solved an entire codebase by hand? no stackoverflow, no google, no intellisense, no autocomplete (hell, no asking other engineers)?

[umang-sinha]

long time man. i think around a year. i don't really remember tbh. but it has been a really really long time

[blinkbat]

same here, of course. so in a sense, LLMs are just the next phase of a gradual erosion, not a total sea change.

[umang-sinha]

and it is upto us to resist the erosion