Again, the meme says absolutely nothing about beginners. It’s the coding practices of experienced developers today. And if those look indistinguishable from beginner practices to you, then perhaps you see the problem.
Parts of me want to argue that “experienced devs” can’t seriously still ask ChatGPT for syntax correction. Like, I do that with Codestral as I’m learning Python (despite the occasional errors it’s still so much better than abstract docs…), but that should just be a learning thing… or is it because nowadays a single codebase often consists of 5+ languages and devs are expected to constantly learn all the new “hot shit” which obviously won’t make anyone experts in one specific one like back when the there just weren’t as many?
I think it’s more of the latter. There are a lot of languages and each one has its own quirks, libraries, and patterns. Even as an experienced dev, you might know what you want to do conceptually, but you might not be sure what the best way to do that in a particular language is. LLMs can be used in a similar way to StackOverflow to look up these sort of things.
Again, the meme says absolutely nothing about beginners. It’s the coding practices of experienced developers today. And if those look indistinguishable from beginner practices to you, then perhaps you see the problem.
Parts of me want to argue that “experienced devs” can’t seriously still ask ChatGPT for syntax correction. Like, I do that with Codestral as I’m learning Python (despite the occasional errors it’s still so much better than abstract docs…), but that should just be a learning thing… or is it because nowadays a single codebase often consists of 5+ languages and devs are expected to constantly learn all the new “hot shit” which obviously won’t make anyone experts in one specific one like back when the there just weren’t as many?
I think it’s more of the latter. There are a lot of languages and each one has its own quirks, libraries, and patterns. Even as an experienced dev, you might know what you want to do conceptually, but you might not be sure what the best way to do that in a particular language is. LLMs can be used in a similar way to StackOverflow to look up these sort of things.