[blks]

Coding by hand is not mere typing symbols into editor that LLMs are now replacing, it’s thinking, abstracting, deciding how to apply your knowledge and experience, searching for information.

And of course in the current workplace where there’s often a push from managers to use LLMs as much as possible and to put as much work as possible on yourself, in this churn junior will not get to learn anything besides prompting and simple tooling.

[danenania]

> thinking, abstracting, deciding how to apply your knowledge and experience, searching for information

None of this requires coding by hand. I can do those things better and faster with agents helping me. That incudes unfamiliar areas where I am effectively a junior.

[blks]

Do you describe what to write to llm, line by line, in excruciating details? Sounds like a painful way to develop.

[danenania]

Line by line is no longer what I need to think about. I think about types/schemas, architectural division, contracts between services and components, how to test thoroughly, scaling properties, security properties, and these kinds of things.