alt Hacker NewsHaving tried LLMs for coding a couple of times in the last couple of years, this used to be me until about a month ago.
Then I again tried Claude Code and OpenCode with a local (due to work I cannot use anything else, moreover wouldn't want to either) Qwen3.8 and behold: my current stance now is that _not_ using something like that, if you can, is missing out on a great tool.
And maybe it's because of the way I use it (in essence: to take care of what is the slowest bit of the process for me which is the typing and the find/replace and other repetitive stuff), but I really cannot come up with any sane reason not to use it.
Somewhat similar experience over here. I'm generally a skeptic during this current hype wave but have been forcing myself to try the latest "default" setup for AI-powered coding every month, just to not completely lose touch with the industry and double down on an opinion based on old models.
A few weeks ago something clicked between Claude Code getting better and my expectations about what it can and can't do becoming more realistic. Now I happily use it for code generation, rubber duck debugging, search tasks (in the code, in git history, in logs, across repos, in our ticketing system, etc) and for rote tasks such as opening PRs.
Still not a fan of vibe coding or doing ten tasks in parallel or generally overly relying on these tools but I do get a lot of extra value in my day-to-day work.
I guess you can find sane reasons not to use LLMs outside the purely technical realm when you consider the economics and ethics of how the sausage is made...