Danny on Nostr: I honestly see no benefit using ChatGPT or any other LLM when coding. Just the fact ...
I honestly see no benefit using ChatGPT or any other LLM when coding. Just the fact that I have to "change brain mode" and try and explain something in English is enough for me to lose all the potential "productivity gains".
Then even if you do that, the code it writes is so bad, it writes bad code with the confidence of a cocky 10 year old who has just learned how to code and thinks they know everything. But it keeps decent ish variable and function names, decent type usage and a consistent style, so some less skilled developers can't tell how horribly bad the code is.
Also, finally, I honestly think the only developers who can even benefit from an LLM in any way where they save time is either beginners or people that just do repetive and iterative things.
The only thing it's sometimes genuinely useful for use an LLM is if you're dealing with a new programming language or some badly documented api and you want a quick way to search for something (and you don't mind if its wrong 20% of the time)
Then even if you do that, the code it writes is so bad, it writes bad code with the confidence of a cocky 10 year old who has just learned how to code and thinks they know everything. But it keeps decent ish variable and function names, decent type usage and a consistent style, so some less skilled developers can't tell how horribly bad the code is.
Also, finally, I honestly think the only developers who can even benefit from an LLM in any way where they save time is either beginners or people that just do repetive and iterative things.
The only thing it's sometimes genuinely useful for use an LLM is if you're dealing with a new programming language or some badly documented api and you want a quick way to search for something (and you don't mind if its wrong 20% of the time)