I’ve seen a few articles saying that instead of hating AI, the real quiet programmers young and old are loving it and have a renewed sense of purpose coding with llm helpers (this article was also hating on ed zitiron, which makes sense why it would).
Is this total bullshit? I have to admit, even though it makes me ill, I’ve used llms a few times to help me learn simple code syntax quickly (im and absolute noob who’s wanted my whole life to learn code but cant grasp it very well). But yes, a lot of time its wrong.
Yes. But I’m not paying for premium like some of my cowokres. I use it to avoid the grunt work, and to avoid things I know I’d have to google.
I used some coworkers account for a while and auto complete is amazing. I it guesses wrong you just keep tipping as usual. If its right, hit tab and saves you like 20 seconds.
On the other hand I have cokowkers that do not check the chatgpt output and the PRs make no sense. Example: instead of making a variable type any (which is forbidden in our codebase) they did
Let a : date|number|string|object|(…) = fetchData()