I think I'm done using LLMs altogether for coding. I've lost the ability to maintain any kind of flow state, the majority of the time I've spent thrashing on architectural changes that I could have done myself, tests that get manipulated into passing, and having to sift through the magic 8-ball of skills that are intended to get work done (all caps dont do this, please do that). LLMs appear to be fruitful as essentially a research search engine but I'm pretty much done with them for coding. This has been an enormously expensive waste of time and to add to it a general atrophy of skill.
I'm Done Using AI
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#4but why, can you give more details
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#5Share your POV about the flow state. I lost that too, but found myself a few days ago sitting in front of Claude prompting until 5am in the morning. The flow is different, less satisfactory for sure than writing code yourself.
Main reason I am sticking to using AI is convenience, speed and the perception that the job market expects you to.
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#6think simple. you are human, ai is a car. you can walk but if you ride a car you can arrive fast. you don't need to forget how to walk while you riding a car.
another side i think for myself; if you are developer you are somewhat right. if you are maker, no problem you can use ai as much as possible. bcz i know i can write completely if the ai is turned off.
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#7You should probably adjust how you work and find a workflow that feels ok to you instead of abandoning it completely.
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#8The frustration makes sense. Its easy to lose your rhythm when the tool starts doing more thinking than you.
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#9A helpful middle ground I’ve found is to build out the architecture you want, but stub out the tedious function implementations you don’t want to do yourself.
And by stub out I mean write the function signature yourself, including parameters it’ll accept and return types. Add a comment if necessary about what it will do.
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#10think simple. you are human, ai is a car. you can walk but if you ride a car you can arrive fast. you don't need to forget how to walk while you riding a car. another side i think for myself; if you are developer you are somewhat right. if you are maker, no problem you can use ai as much as possible. bcz i know i can write completely if the ai is turned off.
If you ride a car, you can arrive fast. Maybe. If you don't wreck the car. Or get hit by a bus. Or have your tire go flat. And your engine doesn't blow. And you don't get pulled over by the cops. And there is no construction on the roads. No accidents. No bridges washed out.
So yeah, your analogy works. Better than you intended.