Post #2463957

@davidcelis@xoxo.zone I'm a believer in handwritten code and the models we build of them, and think LLM generated text is an erosion of both skills and mental models of a project... but sometimes I feel my limiting factor is frustration and burnout rather than technical skill... and even though AI coding will produce worse results with more energy, I still wonder if it could help me be less overwhelmed debugging a massive unfamiliar codebase (I run into bugs often and try to solve them myself, because I've seen that the majority of my bug reports never get fixed). (I suppose if the LLM results are useless enough I spend as much emotional capacity trying to make sense of the results, it's a pure negative because it still causes environmental harm and feeds predatory companies. Another argument is that you "should" instead set the code aside and find some way to self-care, though it seems a bit dogmatic about the "right" way to do things vs. what helps. And it's frustrating to put down code when there's nothing else that feels worth doing...)