Tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI
I use LLM-based autocomplete in my IDE, and it’s not taking away my job unless/until it improves by multiple orders of magnitude. It’s good at filling in boilerplate, but even for that I have to carefully check its output because it can make little errors even when I feel like what I want should be obvious. The article is absolutely correct in saying you have to be critical of its output.I would say it improves my productivity by maybe 5%, which is an incredible achievement. I’m already getting to where coding without it feels very tedious.