[skydhash]

> The difference is, your brain finds guardrails as you solve the problem, the LLM doesn't have this context, you have to give it upfront. Like, you know, a good manager would

Not really the same feeling. It’s more like speaking a foreign language. At the beginning, you’re always guessing at words, and what’s the correct structure/expression. After a few years, you can go direct from idea to sentences.

Today, my brain is familiar with “computer speak”. More often than not, it goes straight from ideas to algorithms and data structures. My time is mostly spent on checking assumptions (what’s the data type returned by this call,…) and verifying results (debugger, tests, printf,…).

Using LLM is like hiring an unreliable translator when I already know the language. Yes, it may speak faster than me, but I do not a faster pace of conversation.

[adamddev1]

> Using LLM is like hiring an unreliable translator when I already know the language.

Fantastic analogy. And when you don't really know the language that well you're just amazed at the translator, like "wow you can speak really well!"