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stavros ◴[] No.45083136[source]
I've come to view LLMs as a consulting firm where, for each request, I have a 50% chance of getting either an expert or an intern writing my code, and there's no way to tell which.

Sometimes I accept this, and I vibe-code, when I don't care about the result. When I do care about the result, I have to read every line myself. Since reading code is harder than writing it, this takes longer, but LLMs have made me too lazy to write code now, so that's probably the only alternative that works.

I have to say, though, the best thing I've tried is Cursor's autocomplete, which writes 3-4 lines for you. That way, I can easily verify that the code does what I want, while still reaping the benefit of not having to look up all the APIs and function signatures.

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1. MangoCoffee ◴[] No.45083541[source]
>When I do care about the result, I have to read every line myself.

isn't that the same as delegated task to jr developer but you still have to check their work as sr?

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2. stavros ◴[] No.45083746[source]
It is, but not the same as if a senior developer were writing it. I would feel much less like I have to check it then.
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