I use llms every day. They’ve made me slightly more productive, for sure. But these claims that they “are like 20 junior engineers” just don’t hold up. First off, did we already forget the mythical man month? Second, like I said, greenfield side projects are one thing. I could vibe code them all day. The large, legacy codebases at work? The ones that have real users and real consequences and real code reviewers? I’m sorry, but I just haven’t seen it work. I’ve seen no evidence that it’s working for anyone else either.

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throwawayoldie 10 hours ago | parent [-]

> They’ve made me slightly more productive, for sure

How are you measuring this? Are you actually saying that you _feel_ slightly more productive?

	▲	WD-42 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I guess I’m not measuring it, really. But I know that in the past I’d do a web search to find patterns or best practices, now the llm is pretty good at proving that kind of stuff. My stack overflow usage has gone way down, for example.