he seemed to be doing fine without them

Clearly. But we’ve seen demonstrations of highly skilled folks being able to make outsized progress using LLM.

It can be an acceleration when wielded by someone who can keep the model focused.

	▲	Gonxa6282 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I mean, most of the advances he made in Mario 64 come from having a deep understanding of the game's code, while enjoying the process of coming up with new ways to improve the code. Having an AI go through your hobbie like that (since he's doing it both for the sake of it and for his M64 romhack) is kind of spoiling the fun, I guess?