Once all the AI batch startups have sold subscriptions to the cohort and there's no more further market growth because businesses outside don't want to roll the dice on a probabilistic model that doesn't have an understanding of pretty much anything rather is a clever imitation machine on the content it has seen, the AI bubble will burst when more statups would start packing up by end of 2026 or max 2027.
I don't want to drastically change my current code, nor do I like being told to create several new files and numerous functions/classes to solve this problem. I want you to think clearly and be focused on the task and don't get wild! I want the most straightforward approach which is elegant, intuitive, and rock solid.Not cool, Claude 3.7, not cool.
I have to wonder, wouldn't just writing the code be more productive in the end?
Yes: if you are an expert in the area. In this case I needed something fairly specific I am far from an expert in. I know both Elixir and Rust quite well but couldn't quickly figure out how to be able to wrap a Rust object in just the right container(s) data type(s) so it can be safely accessed from any OS thread even though the object at hand is `Send` but not `Sync`. And I wanted it done without a mutex.
No: because most programming languages are just verbose. Many times I know _exactly_ what I will write 10 minutes later but I still have to type it out. If I can describe it to an LLM well enough then part of that time is saved.
Mind you, I am usually an LLM hater. They are over-glorified, they don't "reason" and they don't "understand" -- it baffles me to this day that an audience seemingly as educated as HN believes in that snake oil.
That being said, they are still a useful tool and as good engineers it's on us to recognize a tool's utility and its strong and weak usages and adapt our workflows to that. I believe me and many others do just that.
The rest... believe in forest nymphs.
So yeah. I agree that a significant part of the time it's just quicker to type it out. But people like myself are good at articulating their needs so with us it's often a coin toss. I choose to type the code out myself more often than not because (1) I don't want to pay for any LLM yet and (2) I don't want to forget my craft which I love to this day and never did it just for the money.
Which does lead to all the weird discourse around them indeed.