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by Fire-Dragon-DoL 10 days ago
The difference for me has been that you can use llm as your main typing interface, you couldn't do that (without being annoying) before I think opus 4.5
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i've heard of principle level engineers saying their typing is bad now.

skill atrophy is real. especially for the stupid.

I'm typing to talk to the LLM, so definitely not lost.

The main atrophy I'm concerned about is keeping in mind the state of a massive piece of code executing in my mind.

Now with LLM I just ask "show me the state by putting comments in the code" and I just read it