Yeah, I never needed an AI to write poor, inefficient, and ineffective code. I've always had a tremendous personal capacity for that. Why should I give a company money to do something that I'm already good at?

I wish I could've gotten a software engineering degree

I'm working on a physics project, and my simulator suits my purposes and produces reliable results. And I learned a teeny bit about coding building it.

AI coding is actually a very powerful tool, almost like a light saber. Do you notice how many amputations and artificial limbs there are in that galaxy far far away?

It’s a neat tool, but be careful what you do with it. I wouldn’t make anything web-connected or otherwise requiring security considerations, for example.

I think LLM is fine for shorter scripts. As a professional programmer, it has helped me with writing simple throwaway scripts. Those circumstances are rare.

My stance is that if you think LLM help you get your job done, then use LLM. It’s just another tool to your arsenal.

I don’t trust using LLM for large long running software projects though.

It's an interesting tool.

It can shave hours off of experienced programmers work if they use it in the right scenarios. You can use it in places where you need to do something that's mundane but fiddly. It's suboptimal for crapping out a large project, But it's super effective at generating a single function or module to do a task. It might even come up with a better idea than you would use for some things. The key is if it does something that's not quite right or not the best idea You need to be able to read it to understand that it's going a little off the rails.

If you're a spreadsheet junkie, It's capable of writing really really complicated rules without getting lost in the minutia.

For non-developers that don't know anything it's a dicer proposition. After a couple thousand lines of code You might start running into interesting problems. When it starts having to go and do problem solving mode, and you're just feeding it back The errors and asking it to fix the problem You can get bogged down pretty quickly.

For DevOps it's the diggity bomb. Practically everything in that profession is either a one-off quick emergency script or a well thought out plan of templates.

Here are my five Amazon accounts give me a shell script that goes into every account in every availability zone, enumerate every security group and give me a tool to add remove or replace a given IP with a description and port based on the existence of other IPs descriptions or ports. Or write me an ansible script to install zabix monitoring playbooks with these templates.

That's perfectly fine though. And I say that as a professional dev. The problem is when people assume you can actually build an entire software/service architecture of any complexity just through vibe coding.

Currently LLMs are great for helping me pick out the curtains or even to help me assemble some furniture, but I would NEVER let them build the entire house, if that makes sense.

Microwaves are useful cooking tools and can be used to make many things.