I will not be using LLMs in my coding

Re:I will not be using LLMs in my coding by trial3 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:32AM (#50413191)

assuming you yourself had programmed pre-LLM i completely fail to relate to your lived experience. what a devastatingly sad way of viewing the world

setting aside the craft and mastery or satisfaction in goal accomplishment: to me the main thing is a sense of actualization, of the codebase or thing you were working on being better because you were there.

have you ever put up a shelf? did it feel good after?

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Re:I will not be using LLMs in my coding by alexpadula on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:38AM (#50413256)

Putting a shelf up is not fun. Designing, building the shelf from scratch with my own vision feels way better ;). It's a lot more of a hassle but you will always look at it and be like I did that. It's easy to go to the store, buy something and assemble it.

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Re:I will not be using LLMs in my coding by ricardobeat on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:59AM (#50413444)

I think this perspective comes from assuming that the LLM is doing the thinking for you. And that is not the right approach IMO. The code is still mine - I chose how to write it, I suggested improvements, picked the architecture, directed refactoring and benchmarking efforts, improved tooling, scope of tests, and so on.

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