Re:Generative AI and the widening software developer knowled...
by d0mine on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @02:33PM
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The same can be said about google and more specifically about stackoverflow: you can't just mindlessly copy-paste.
It is a tool that can be useful both for a beginner and more experienced developers.
LLMs are great when you're fairly knowledgeable about the topic. You can ask it to automate stuff and you can spot the errors and fix them. Hopefully it automates enough and makes fewer errors than the time it'd take for you to code from scratch.
They currently can make programmers more productive if used right. Now allow a junior to enter the field and never learning some skill because the LLM does it all? Not even close.