Post #42801
2025-12-08 20:16 UTC
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@MangoCats@feddit.it 2025-12-09 14:31
True that LLMs will accept almost any task, whether they should or not. True that their solutions aren’t 100% perfect every time. Whether it’s faster to use them or not I think depends a lot on what’s being done, and what alternative set of developers you’re comparing them with. What I have seen across the past year is that the number of cases where LLM based coding tools are faster than traditional developers has been increasing, rather dramatically. I called them near useless this time last year.
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@lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2025-12-10 15:30
I just did three tasks purely with Claude - at work. All were pretty much me pasting the Linear ticket to Claude and hitting go. One got some improvement ideas on the PR so I said “implement the comments from PR 420” and so it did. These were all on a codebase I haven’t seen before. The magic sauce is that I’ve been doing this for a quarter century and I’m pretty good at reading code and I know if something smells like shit code or not. I’m not just YOLOing the commits to a PR without reading first, but I save a ton of time when I don’t need to do the grunt work of passing a variable through 10 layers of enterprise code.