I’m currently doing a project with someone who only uses LLMs, and it’s exhausting and mentally draining.

Whenever I give feedback on something, the answer is just “let me tell Claude”. The person has no understanding of how everything works, and most of the code reflects that.

The other day he hardcoded in a demo mode, simply because he didn’t even know how to set up a local environment and set environment variables. I’m confused as to why Claude didn’t even knew this, but it might just be the prompting.

I limit LLM usage myself, and if I do use it, I try to use it on extremely specific tasks. It’s the only way it works for me.

I honestly don’t understand how all these companies are getting away with generating AI code. Even in a small project I quickly fall behind on my understanding of the project.

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jordanb 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I remember working with people like this before AI and it was annoying but they struggled with productivity because they didn't understand what they were working on enough to produce good code efficiently, so the problem usually took care of itself.

Now these people can thrive because LLM coding encourages the incurious and punishes the deep thinker.

	▲	woutr_be 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		At least to me, before LLMs, those people could somewhat be trained. You could give them feedback, and they would improve and learn the code. Now your feedback is just another prompt for them, the code might be slightly better, but the person learned nothing from it.

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thewhitetulip an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

LLM generated code is obtuse and dense, unnecessarily so