alt Hacker NewsRight when you're coding with LLM it's not you asking the LLM questions, it's LLM asking you questions, about what to build, how should it work exactly, should it do this or that under what conditions. Because the LLM does the coding, it's you have to do more thinking. :-)
And when you make the decisions it is you who is responsible for them. Whereas if you just do the coding the decisions about the code are left largely to you nobody much sees them, only how they affect the outcome. Whereas now the LLM is in that role, responsible only for what the code does not how it does it.
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> Because the LLM does the coding, it's you have to do more thinking. :-)
I keep seeing this sentiment, but it sure sounds wrong to me.
Coding requires thinking (in humans, at any rate). When you're doing coding, you're doing both coding-thinking and the design thinking.
Now you're only doing one half of it.
Hehe, speak for yourself- as a 1x coder on a good day, having a nonjudgmental partner who can explain stuff to me is one of the best parts of writing with an llm :)