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by strix_varius 9 days ago
Exactly this. Just this week an engineer who seems to purely vibe everything submitted a +700ish LoC fix for what seemed like a pretty simple issue. Moreover it was a perf issue, which in my experience is not usually best fixed by adding more stuff.

Today, I merged my fix, net -381 LoC.

I'm using them too of course, they read and type and hunt for bugs and test faster than I can. But I'm using them as my tool, not being a tool using them.

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> But I'm using them as my tool, not being a tool using them.

Keep believing that

Do you find it impossible to use LLMs productively without giving over your brain wholesale to them?