Not using an LLM also dumb you down, or does it simply imply you’re dumb?
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It's the frozen 🍕 of software development.
Great, when you're in a rush, but you'll forget how to code and always need the LLM. Same way people forget how to cook.
Brains atrophy alarmingly fast. You have to actively attempt to stay intelligent, or you just rot.
People used to ask me what is your favorite programming language. My response ended up being “simply English” and that’s the vibe coding model going for. I am not sure if I see it as a frozen pizza, or some inferior thing. I might see it as a superior 3d printed pizza, a holy grail.
Computers don't actually understand English, tho.
Maybe. Not yet.
THEY'RE CALCULATORS, SIR.
You’re pointing to calculators and calling them calculators, there’s absolute truth in that. But to say that “they can only be calculators” and they shall stay in that way, that is an entirely different statement.
They're called "computers" because they compute. They are adding machines. They just add very very fast, now.
Good grief.