Comment by hollowturtle

Can't disagree more. Talent is built and perfected upon thousands hours practice, LLMs just make you lazy. One thing people with seniority in the field don't realize, as I guess you are, is that LLMs don't help develop "muscle memory" in young practioners, it just make them miserable, often caged in an infinite feedback loop of bug fixing or trying to untangle a code mess. They may extract some value by using it for studying but I doubt it and only goes so far, when started I remember being able to extract so much knowledge just by reading a book about algorithms, try to reimplement things, break them, and so on. Today I can use an LLM because I'm wise enough and I can spot wrong answers, but still feel becoming a bit lazy.