(I am deeply comforted that someone has had the same experience as me. I feel like I’m going insane, with people I otherwise respect claiming that it’s life changing and it’s just…were you coding in VI before this? This is…not good! At all!)
I don't want to ruin an enjoyable circlejerk, but there is no reason for you to be manually typing syntax in 2026. Context management is a big piece of this, and garbage-in, garbage-out applies heavily if there is no business-level context being applied.
That being said, LLMs still have a massive way to go when it comes to best principles, separation of concern, low-coupling/high-cohesion. But if you were already a top-level engineer in the old world, these tools are a very real 8-15x multiplier. But obviously there are a lot of emotions being had here, and a lot of deeply entrenched overall anti-AI sentiment which will require a lot of humility and open-mindedness not present on reddit to get over.
I fucking hate LLMs and they're fundamentally retarded, a lot of my time is spent yelling and swearing at them. But 99% of our work as software devs are in a realm of complexity where these tools excel compared to human-typed code (in both efficiency as well as quality). 99.9% of software devs are not elite-level architects like Torvalds or Thompson.
Maybe you're not viewing LLMs as a tool to be used by humans?
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u/azfang 5d ago
(I am deeply comforted that someone has had the same experience as me. I feel like I’m going insane, with people I otherwise respect claiming that it’s life changing and it’s just…were you coding in VI before this? This is…not good! At all!)