I walk all the time

During the summer I’ll walk 30-50 miles a week

However I’m not going to walk to work ever and I’m damn sir not going to walk in the rain or snow unless if I can avoid it

I actually like the analogy but for the opposite reason. Cars have become the most efficient way to travel for most industrial purposes. And yet enormous numbers of people still walk, run, ride bikes, or even horses, often for reasons entirely separate from financial gain.

Coding will take 4 times less time, but review will take almost the same amount of time if not more if the solution does not worl out of the box or has unforseen corner cases.

LLMs were trained on public code libraries and unfortunately most pf that OSS code is garbage.

There are ofcourse raisins there, but those are far in between.

Top it off with hallucinations and suddenly you spend more time debugging messy AI code when you could write the same in a fraction of that time.

The easier the task, the better job LLMs do, the harder the task the worse results you get.

Source: working with those tools daily.

Using your analogy:

- by car it will be 30km uphill, coz of how the road is built

- walking it will be 1km straight line