Using it for the sometimes spot on cakewalk segments is a fairly productive win.

One thing that absolutely blows my mind is how many people will say how much time it saves then with repetitive or boilerplate code. It is obvious these people have never actually tried to optimize their workflow even a little bit before. Regex replace, snippets, and keyboard macros have existed in text editors forever and are actually deterministic.

Yes. Acting like an LLM over a programming language is anything close to a higher level over lower level programming language makes you completely full of shit.

Comparing it to an (almost) entirely complete abstraction where you (almost) never have any benefit to looking under the covers like c over assembler is completely dishonest.

Now it’s spent refining the analysis so that the LLM stops producing slop

The thing is that actually doing this isn’t faster than writing the code, robs the practitioner of learning, and more often than not doesn’t actually happen, so you have a harder to maintain codebase with more bugs and less knowledgeable developers to maintain it.

Edit: and as a fun bonus accelerates glacier melting!

I’m my experience people give tech demos, everyone is impressed, my coworkers say it makes them multiples faster, then I have more work making sure the wheels don’t fall off.

The quote is from the founder of hashicorp and is fairly influential. Choosing to let his also influential friends ruin people’s lives instead of publicly speaking the truth makes him an asshole. Chances are you and your ex-lover are not influential so I don’t give a fuck what you do.

I can’t name any specific people because they include personal friends

From the quote at the top. I keep seeing permutations of this and all I can say is these people are cowards