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0 pointsremich4mo ago0 comments

I get what you're saying, but I would say that this does not match my own experience. For me, prior to the agentic coding era, the problem was always that I had way more ideas for features, tools, or projects than I had the capacity to build when I had to confront the work of building everything by hand, also dealing with the inevitable difficulties in procrastination and getting started.

I am a very above-average engineer when it comes to speed at completing work well, whether that's typing speed or comprehension speed, and still these tools have felt like giving me a jetpack for my mind. I can get things done in weeks that would have taken me months before, and that opens up space to consider new areas that I wouldn't have even bothered exploring before because I would not have had the time to execute on them well.

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jaapz4mo ago

I think the comprehension part is very important.

When I write my own code without an LLM, it is an extension of my own thinking, my own mental model.

But when I use an LLM, that LLM produces code that I need to comprehend, understand. It's like I'm continually reading some other developers' code, and having to understand their mental model and way of thinking to truly understand the code.

For me, this is very tiring. It just costs more energy for me to review and read other people's code than when I write it myself.

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jaapz4mo ago

I think the comprehension part is very important.

When I write my own code without an LLM, it is an extension of my own thinking, my own mental model.

For me, this is very tiring. It just costs more energy for me to review and read other people's code than when I write it myself.

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