Human coders are still better than LLMs

Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by msgodel on Friday May 30, 2025 @06:46AM (#44134805)

Yeah, keeping me in the flow when I hit one of those silly tasks my brain just randomly says "no let's do something else" to has been the main productivity improving feature of LLMs.

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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by mystified5016 on Friday May 30, 2025 @01:32PM (#44138328)

Yes! So many times my brain just skips right over some tasks because it takes too much effort to start. The LLM can give you something to latch onto and work with. It can lay down the starting shape of a function or program and even when it's the wrong shape, you still have something to mold into the correct shape.

The thing about ADHD is that taking a task from nothing to something is often harder than turning that something into the finished product. It's really weird and extremely not fun.

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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by pipes on Friday May 30, 2025 @02:22PM (#44138740)

This is the complete opposite for me! I really like a blank page, the thought of writing a prompt destroys my motivation as does reviewing the code that an LLM produces.

As an aside, I'm seeing more an more crap in PRs. Nonsensical use of language features. Really poorly structured code but that is a different story.

I'm not anti LLMs for coding. I use them too. Especially for unit tests.

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