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> So in the current iteration, I think LLMs are a shortcutting tool for experts

My take has been that LLMs aren't valuable for me because I'm an expert and writing code is no longer very difficult. And searching for the knowledge when I need it is faster on my own than having a conversation with a computer because true expertise also involves having mastered and streamlined that process.

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i'm an experienced coder and co-pilot often writes code faster than I can think of it, and it's usually fine and follows the pattern I had established with previous code. A lot of code that everyone writes is just boilerplate. Until I used copilot, I didn't realize _how much_ i was writing that didn't really require much thought.

Imo if you’re “doing coding right”, at a certain point, you should be thinking very little about what you’re doing. This can manifest as having easily copypastable design patterns, lots of tests, inversion of control, etc.

Even among senior developers it can be shockingly rare for people to actually understand and implement something like DI/IoC in a correct and useful way.

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