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by w-m 97 days ago
I don’t think learning and understanding is hard-coupled to performing all low level steps yourself. The LLM can be a developer, sure. But it can also take on the role of rubber duck, architect, teacher or pupil.

Have a large LLM-written change set that works but that you’re not sure you fully understand? Make the coding agent quiz you on the design and implementation decisions. This can be a lot more engaging than trying to do a normal code review. And you might even learn something from it. Probably not the same amount as if you did this yourself fully. But that’s just a question of how much effort you want to invest in the understanding?