LLMs are tools. If you master your tools, you become more productive. I've had the same mixed experiences with LLMs that others have. Some good, some not so great. But I've been merging quite a bit of codex created PRs in the last weeks. Some needed manual intervention. Some were tedious to create. And some clearly saved me a lot of work.
I always have more work than I can handle. Part of my job is deciding what not to do and what to drop because it hasn't got the right priority. Me spending an afternoon on a thing that is fun but not valuable is usually a bad use of my time. With LLMs, I'm taking on a few more of the things that I previously wouldn't have. That started with a few hobby projects that I'm now doing that I previously wasn't. And it's creeping into work as well. LLMs struggle on larger code bases. But less so with recent model releases.
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