HN, and the internet in general, have become just an ocean of reactionary sandbagging and blather about how "useless" LLMs are.
Meanwhile, in the real world, I've found that I haven't written a line of code in weeks. Just paragraphs of text that specify what I want and then guidance through and around pitfalls in a simple iterative loop of useful working code.
It's entirely a learned skill, the models (and very importantly the tooling around them) have arrived at the base line they needed.
Much Much more productive world by just knuckling down and learning how to do the work.
HN, and the internet in general, have become just an ocean of reactionary sandbagging and blather about how "useless" LLMs are.
Meanwhile, in the real world, I've found that I haven't written a line of code in weeks. Just paragraphs of text that specify what I want and then guidance through and around pitfalls in a simple iterative loop of useful working code.
It's entirely a learned skill, the models (and very importantly the tooling around them) have arrived at the base line they needed.
Much Much more productive world by just knuckling down and learning how to do the work.
edit: https://aider.chat/ + paid 3.5 sonnet