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by hibikir 30 days ago
If you have a very specific decision in mind, there's no need to ask the LLM at all and hope it guesses it. Depending on how sure I am, I will either explain what I want vaguely, or even phrasing things as questions, or be direct and inflexible. It ends up writing the code I would.

It's not all that different from what happens if I am delegating a larger task to another human being. The only actual difference there is that wit a person, I'd rather underspecify as to give them ore of a sense of freedom and opportunity for growth, while the LLM isn't learning anything, so, if anything, it's easier.

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I was mainly just speaking to the point of the article with regards to ability to think about code/solve technical problems. I think most EMs I speak to would say their technical skill set is degraded from years not writing code. I think if you just review code without writing it, your technical skills degrade regardless of whether you are reviewing junior or LLM code. In both cases you maybe gain architecture design and soft skills but you are definitely not improving your technical skill set