I’ve seen a few articles saying that instead of hating AI, the real quiet programmers young and old are loving it and have a renewed sense of purpose coding with llm helpers (this article was also hating on ed zitiron, which makes sense why it would).
Is this total bullshit? I have to admit, even though it makes me ill, I’ve used llms a few times to help me learn simple code syntax quickly (im and absolute noob who’s wanted my whole life to learn code but cant grasp it very well). But yes, a lot of time its wrong.
I’ve found in-line completions/suggestions useful at times, but multi-line completions always irritating to the point that I disabled them completely. Much more often I want to read surrounding and following code, and not have it be pushed out of view, and rarely was it useful to me.
Of course, that may be largely the project and use case. (And quite limited experience with it.)