Look at it this way. The carver doesn't have to grow the tree. Using an LLM for coding is a lot like being a carver. You can take broad or small strokes and discard what you don't like.

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lll-o-lll 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Using an LLM for coding is a lot like being a carver.

It’s nothing like being a carver. It’s like being a director; “Once more! With feeling!”. “Perfect, brilliant, just one more take, and I want you to consider…”

A sculptor shapes with their hands, and there is pleasure in that. A director shapes with someone else’s hands.

	▲	ares623 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's like being a master, really. You're getting output from something that can't say no and that was built from the works of millions of unknowing and unconsenting contributors.