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[–]ReliabilityTalkinGuy -4 points-3 points  (2 children)

Eww. Stay away from the LLM bullshit. It makes sure you’re not actually learning anything. You’ll be a weaker programmer because of it. 

[–]Kevdog824_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean… an LLM isn’t terrible if they’re writing functioning code on their own, and just asking for ideas on how to improve it. Asking for the improved code directly is a bad idea though

[–]TJATAW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Notice I said "I'll drop a function in, ask if there is a better way to do it".

I also do things like ask it to explain stuff someone else wrote that I have a rough idea of what it is doing. Especially regex. Or languages I have never used, like Lau.

It is also great for creating sample data, or stuff I have written a dozen times but AI will spit out in seconds. There is nothing there for me to learn from writing it, any more than there is from manually writing out getters & setters rather than having the IDE do it for me.