There is a short term vs long term gain aspect to this.
For me programming was never only about creating the thing but also about becoming better at design and problem solving. So I'm still doing things mostly by hand to get these benefits. I'll use the LLM as a brainstorm partner.
It's like when I'm trying to learn a foreign language. Asking the AI for a translation of a paragraph is the easy shortcut but you know it's not going to help in the long run. It's better to manually look in the dictionary or look for real-world usage, or even ask the AI to explain the grammar, the effort itself is what helps crystallize the knowledge.
This approach won't be intuitive for the next generation. But LLMs can definitely be used to teach you how to do things instead of doing the things for you. We need to educate people about how to use them a way that make them better rather than simply delegate thinking.
For me programming was never only about creating the thing but also about becoming better at design and problem solving. So I'm still doing things mostly by hand to get these benefits. I'll use the LLM as a brainstorm partner.
It's like when I'm trying to learn a foreign language. Asking the AI for a translation of a paragraph is the easy shortcut but you know it's not going to help in the long run. It's better to manually look in the dictionary or look for real-world usage, or even ask the AI to explain the grammar, the effort itself is what helps crystallize the knowledge.
This approach won't be intuitive for the next generation. But LLMs can definitely be used to teach you how to do things instead of doing the things for you. We need to educate people about how to use them a way that make them better rather than simply delegate thinking.