Comment by furyofantares

> No, it's not. It's something you can pick in a few minutes (or an hour if you're using more advanced tooling, mostly spending it setting things up). But it's not like GDB or using UNIX as a IDE where you need a whole book to just get started.

The skill floor is something you can pick up in a few minutes and find it useful, yes. I have been spending dedicated effort toward finding the skill ceiling and haven't found it.

I've picked up lots of skills in my career, some of which were easy, but some of which required dedicated learning, or practice, or experimentation. LLM-assisted coding is probably in the top 3 in terms of effort I've put into learning it.

I'm trying to learn the right patterns to use to keep the LLM on track and keeping the codebase in check. Most importantly, and quite relevant to OP, I'd like to use LLMs to get work done much faster while still becoming an expert in the system that is produced.

Finding the line has been really tough. You can get a LOT done fast without this requirement, but personally I don't want to work anywhere that has a bunch of systems that nobody's an expert in. On the flip side, as in the OP, you can have this requirement and end up slower by using an LLM than by writing the code yourself.