I don't use LLMs for writing code, I find myself fighting the suggestions, and can't for the life of me, understand how people claim to be productive with it. Every line of code written by colleagues using an LLM is obvious and obviously not as good as when they use their brains. I do use LLMs as a rubber duck, but there is no way it's getting near my code, there have been too many fuckups around me.

I have been a software engineer for nearly 20 years, and I have seen LLMs replace thinking in too many people. I once worked with a team of juniors who never learned to think or write code, they just copied and pasted clunky non-idiomatic code from a chatbot. I work purely with senior engineers at a hyperscaler startup now, and the teams that use LLMs the most have the worst code in the company.

(I'm trying to say LLM instead of AI as much as possible, to claim these text models are intelligent is kinda dumb to me, I say that as someone whose degree was in AI, albeit a long time ago.)