The thing is: I could produce 2-3 times as much code as before _without_ an LLM, if I didn't care about my colleagues' ability to review my output properly.
Lines of code are a liability, not an asset. You want as few of them as you can get away with, without compromising the actual asset: the functionality.
A huge part of the job of Software Engineering is producing the right amount of code at the right time.
Lines of code are a liability, not an asset. You want as few of them as you can get away with, without compromising the actual asset: the functionality.
A huge part of the job of Software Engineering is producing the right amount of code at the right time.