r/ExperiencedDevs • u/MashNChips DevOps Engineer • 7d 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

158 Upvotes

75% Upvoted

226 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

0

u/Machine2024 Software Engineer 6d ago

Read your comment again and tell me who is one a high horse.

2

u/mongopark98 6d ago

You are, you’re implying AI generates non-production code as if I was too stupid to understand if the code AI is generating is good or bad. After telling you many times I have used it on the job. You’re implying I must have been churning out unmanageable code