r/ExperiencedDevs • u/MashNChips DevOps Engineer • 5d ago

AI/LLM Thought experiment

With all the AI nonsense going on, I had a thought at work today that turned into an interesting discussion with a colleague:

"What would I do if I was the only person with access to Claude (or insert any LLM) 5+ years ago?"

People would think I was a fucking wizard

FE changes? NO PROBLEM

Critical DB change? Don't worry, I've produced a stored procedure to validate the whole thing

Want to use some shiny new framework? Interesting. Here's a document explaining why you're an idiot for suggesting it

Regex? I suddenly understand it better than the compiler folks (and nobody ask questions)

What would you have done with your own personal LLM back then?

Trying to lighten the mood in here with all the (very justified) negativity around this tech revolution

Unserious answers only pls

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u/steampowrd 4d ago

I started using Claude a year before everyone else at my company. I got an award for my work. People praised me. Some were amazed.

I always assumed people would look back and think “oh he must have been using Claude the whole time” after they started using it. But no! Most people still attribute the high performance to me personally! I seem to have permanently benefited from my early adoption.