Or you're using skis on gravel. I'm a firm believer that the utility varies greatly depending on the tech stack and what you're trying to do, ranging from negative value to way more than 5x.
I also think "prompting" is a misrepresentation of where the actual skill and experiences matter. It's about being efficient with the tooling. Prompting, waiting for a response and then manually copypasting line by line into multiple places is something else entirely than having two LLMs work in tandem, with one figuring out the solution and the other applying the diff.
Good tooling also means that there's no overhead trying out multiple solutions. It should be so frictionless that you sometimes redo a working solution just because you want to see a different approach.
Finally, you must be really active and can't just passively wait for the LLM to finish before you start analyzing the output. Terminate early, reprompt and retry. The first 5 seconds after submitting is crucial and being able to take a decision just from seeing a few lines of code is a completely new skill for me.
Or you're using skis on gravel. I'm a firm believer that the utility varies greatly depending on the tech stack and what you're trying to do, ranging from negative value to way more than 5x.
I also think "prompting" is a misrepresentation of where the actual skill and experiences matter. It's about being efficient with the tooling. Prompting, waiting for a response and then manually copypasting line by line into multiple places is something else entirely than having two LLMs work in tandem, with one figuring out the solution and the other applying the diff.
Good tooling also means that there's no overhead trying out multiple solutions. It should be so frictionless that you sometimes redo a working solution just because you want to see a different approach.
Finally, you must be really active and can't just passively wait for the LLM to finish before you start analyzing the output. Terminate early, reprompt and retry. The first 5 seconds after submitting is crucial and being able to take a decision just from seeing a few lines of code is a completely new skill for me.