I hate using LLMs as a tool, I never hated compilers, I’m very confident I wouldn’t have hated compilers if I was writing machine code. Some folks seem to like LLMs as a tool, some hate it.

I think the reason it is so polarizing, is whether you like using your brain to problem solve or not. Those who don’t want to use their brain to problem solve and would rather just spend all their time in meetings, talking to customers or whatever else, are ecstatic with LLMs. It lets them skip problem solving entirely.

Those who like to think hard and solve problems, hate it because there’s no problem solving anymore when you use LLMs, and it moves so fast that it is hard to not use LLMs at most tech jobs (outside of managers forcing it down your throat). I never cared at all for customers, I definitely don’t care for shareholders, I only joined tech because I found it interesting to tax my mind to solve real problems and it paid well. Sadly now it only pays well, I think I’ll leave soon, once I make my money.

> Those who like to think hard and solve problems, hate it because there’s no problem solving anymore when you use LLMs

There is still problem solving with LLM coding, it just moves from lower-level implementation problems to higher-level problems like software architecture and design.

But you can still solve problems and write code by hand on your own for your hobby projects. You do not need to solve problems only in paid job. However I think with LLMs/AI you can go further and do more difficult problems. Of course somebody can create whole app faster and from scratch etc. but it does not mean that person will understand everything. But what does this person really need to know? Implementation details such as every piece of code (ihmo not possible), selected framework details, business logic code, high overview of architecture? But why do we treat programming language backend and "under the hood code" as not necessary artifacts? "Because it is complex and possible for single human". Yes and with LLMs generated code we go further. Whole apps will be artifacts, pieces of bigger and more complex systems. I guess it will be like this but I am not sure, we will see.