Comment by douglasisshiny 15 hours ago
I've had the same experience as the person to whom you're responding. After reading your post, I have to ask: if you're putting so much effort into prompting it with specific points, correcting it often, etc., why not just write the code yourself? It sounds like you're putting a good deal of effort into prompting it.
Aren't you worried that overtime you'll rely on it too much and your offhand knowledge will get worse?
Not OP, it be comes natural and doesn't take a lot of time.
Anyway, if you want to, LLMs can today help with a ton of programming languages and frameworks. If you use any of the top 5 languages and it still doesn't work for you, either you're doing some esoteric work or you're doing it wrong.
Could you point me to a youtube video or a blog post which demonstrates how LLMs help writing code which outperforms a proficient human?
My only conditions:
- It must be demonstrated by adding a feature on a bigger code base (>= 20 LOC)
- The added feature cannot be a leaf feature (means it must integrate with the rest of the system at multiple points)
- The prompting has to be less effort/faster than to type the solution in the programming language
You can chose any programming language/framework that you want. I don't care if it is Java, JavaScript, Typescript, C, Python, ... hell, I am fine with any language with or w/o a framework.
I have read somewhere, that LLMs are mostly helpful to junior developers.
Is it possible the person claiming success with all these languages/tools/technologies is just on a junior level and is subjectively correct but has no point of reference how fast coding is for seniors and how quality code looks like?