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We’re at this weird inflection point in software development. Every junior dev I talk to has Copilot or Claude or GPT running 24/7. They’re shipping code faster than ever. But when I dig deeper into their understanding of what they’re shipping? That’s where things get concerning.
121 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 17 Feb
And it is true. I always say that LLMs shouldn't be demonized for coding but they shouldn't be exploited either. They should rather be a tool for learning by asking how something works and best practices, or for repetitive tasks, boilerplate code, etc. Personally, I'm behind ek's way of using LLMs for coding (#865694), you're still using your concepts, reasoning and knowledge but with some help from an unpaid (debatable) intern.
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It speaks to the quick and now world we live in. I want someone on my team who will be able to debug when the existing code breaks. And understand the technical decisions that went into why it was built how it was built to begin with.
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