[uduni]

It's a skill set just like coding. You can embrace an elevated workflow where you can forget about the specific syntax and focus on the architecture and integration. It takes time to intuit what exactly the models are bad at, so you can forsee hallucinations and prevent them from happening in the first place. Yes you can write 1 line faster than Claude, but what about 10 lines? 100? 1000?

[mikkupikku]

> Yes you can write 1 line faster than Claude, but what about 10 lines? 100? 1000?

Bingo. One quick edit when you already know what needs to be done is trivial, that means nothing. What happens when you have to write a new feature and it will take hundreds of lines of code? Unless you're an elder god of programming, the LLM will lap you easily.

[phatskat]

> that means nothing

We currently have a tracking code that is deprecated, and stopping it from going out is a one line removal in a switch statement. I have a ticket for it, it’s 1 point, easy.

I’d wager a guess that if I told an LLM “we don’t want the ‘worker-item-click-apply’ event to fire”, I’m going to get a mix of code edits, maybe a new module, and probably a filter at the API call level, because it’s going to be too clever.

> What happens when you have to write a new feature and it will take hundreds of lines of code? Unless you're an elder god of programming, the LLM will lap you easily.

Then I’m going to write hundreds of lines, I’m going to write tests, I’m going to painstakingly compare my work to Figma, and I’m going to do it a lot slower than an LLM. I’m also going to understand the code, inside and out, and when our new engineer hops in to help add a feature or fix a bug, I’ll know where to send them, I’ll be able to explain the code to them, and we will both grow a better understanding of our codebase.

Could an LLM do that, or help? Sure, and I know that it will take a lot of effort and refinement that is just going to be churn.

[xigoi]

A good programmer can write in 100 lines what Claude will write in 1000, so this is not a fair comparison. Less is more.