> In my experience so far, the people that aren’t getting value out of LLM code assistants, …

> In my experience so far, the people that aren’t getting value out of LLM code assistants, fundamentally like the process of writing code and using the tooling > All of my senior, staff, principals love it because we can make something faster than having to deal with a junior because it’s trivial to write the spec/requirement for Claude etc… Hm, interesting. As someone who has found zero joy and value in using LLMs, this rings true to me. Setting aside the numerous glaring errors I get every time I try to use one, even if the tools were perfect, I don't think I would enjoy using them. I enjoy programming, thinking about how to break down a problem and form abstractions and fit those into the tools the language I'm writing in gives me. I enjoy learning and using the suite of Unix tools like grep and sed and vim to think about how to efficiently write and transform code. The end product isn't the fun part, the fun part is making the end product. If software engineering just becomes explaining stuff in English to a machine and having some software pop out... …