▲ | 827a 10 hours ago | |
For sure; similarly, when someone showed me Prettier many years ago, I immediately understood its value. This will save significant time every year I previously spent manually formatting my code and having arguments with other engineers about tabs versus spaces. AI bros will probably feel I'm being sarcastic and facetious; but I'm genuinely not. LLMs are an awesome tool to have in the toolbelt. I use them every day. The question is simply on the scope of their capability. Is this the future of how all code is written? Or is it just the future of how mostly-mechanical refactors happen? Can these systems take extremely abstract prompts and deliver adequate results? Or do they need to be communicated with in a way that so-closely-resembles computer code that one might as well just write the code themselves? |