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2026-07-27 15:52 UTC

IMO one of the core functional issues (There are plenty of non-functional ones too, of course) with people who use LLMs for writing code is: It strips away friction. You can’t first “make the change easy”, if you never realize the change was hard to begin with, because you never felt the friction of trying to make the change yourself. LLMs rob us of one of *the* core signals to whether our code is working with us, or against us.

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@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com 2026-07-27 16:06

Before somebody says it: Yes, a sufficiently experienced engineer, with sufficient domain expertise, can probably suss out some/most of these pain points even *without* touching the code by hand. You might just have that gut feeling that “cost” and “price” aren’t the same concept in a finance application. But that’s a lot of hope to put in your gut, and likely robs juniors from ever building that sixth sense to begin with.

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