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.
Not speaking for them, but I use LLMs for this. You have lines of repetitive code, and you realize you need to swap the order of things within each line. You could brute force it, or you could write a regex search/replace. Instead, you tell the LLM to do it and it saves a lot of time.
Swapping the order of things is just one example. It can change capitalization, insert values, or generate endless amounts of mock data.
Ah! That does seem useful indeed! Even just generating a bunch a dummy data.