If an LLM can do it, it’s “undifferentiated heavy lifting” that doesn’t add value by my typing it out myself.
I’m no more going to stop using LLM based coding assistants in 2025 than I’m going to stop using compilers instead of programming in assembly like I did in the mid 80s
It also walks you through changes one by one and lets you approve them. It beats the typical PR process via github because you go through it in logical order - why this code is here, etc.
dabinat•1d ago
But LLMs have been invaluable for those kinds of problems that don’t make any sense where I have to dismantle everything just to figure it out, with the full knowledge that I will kick myself once I figure out what it is. LLMs have helped me troubleshoot those issues much faster and with significantly less frustration.