I'll just keep chugging along, with debian, python and vim, as I always have. No LLM, no LSP, heck not even autocompletion. But damn proud of every hand crafted, easy to maintain and fully understood line of code I'll write.
Now, I don't trust the output - I review everything, and it often goes wrong. You have to know how to use it. But I would never go back. Often it comes up with more elegant solutions than I would have. And when you're working with a new platform, or some unfamiliar library that it already knows, it's an absolute godsend.
I'm also damn proud of my own hand-crafted code, but to avoid LLMs out of principal? That's just luddite.
20+ years of experience across game dev, mobile and web apps, in case you feel it relevant.
The folly of single ended metrics.
> but to avoid LLMs out of principal? That's just luddite.
Do you double check that the LLM hasn't magically recreated someone else's copyrighted code? That's just irresponsible in certain contexts.
> in case you feel it relevant.
Of course it's relevant. If a 19 year old with 1 year of driving experience tries to sell me a car using their personal anecdote as a metric I'd be suspicious. If their only salient point is that "it gets me to where I'm going faster!" I'd be doubly suspicious.
I frankly do not care, and I expect LLMs to become such ubiquitous table-stakes that I don't think anyone will really care in the long run.
Unless they develop entirely new technology they're stuck with linear growth of output capability for input costs. This will take a very long time. I expect it to be abandoned in favor of better ideas and computing interfaces. "AI" always seems to bloom right before a major shift in computing device capability and mobility and then gets left behind. I don't see anything special about this iteration.
> that I don't think anyone will really care in the long run.
There are trillions of dollars at stake and access to even the basics of this technology is far from egalitarian or well distributed. Until it is I would expect people who's futures and personal wealth depends on it to care quite a bit. In the meanwhile you might just accelerate yourself into a lawsuit.