Ask HN: What is your opinion on the idea of “AI/LLM driven development?”

I have been a developer for quite some time now, and am working on some big projects. Being in the lucky spot where I am also working at a "open" company which has all their code publicly available, I have put ChatGPT in the passenger seat, and am increasingly more doing ADD (AI Driven development).

My flow has been to ask ChatGPT when I am stuck, or when I want to build functionality but am not sure how. Over several sprints now I have delivered feature after feature, aided by AI giving me pseudo-code, input, and help on debugging issues in 5 minutes what previously was taking me an hour. I went from knowing "some JavaScript" as a backend-dev, to doing a whole development cycle with UI/UX to writing the JavaScript features into existence.

I've been doing this since the day ChatGPT has been released, and in the past months I feel like I am peaking. I have not been vocal about it (afraid to being "found out"), so my colleagues and my employer don't know the full extend of my ADD cycle, but the overall reception is great. I have also learned so much, that it feels like I am doing something illegal. Gone are the days of reading boring documentation, watching 3 hour long YouTube videos and first embarking personal projects... instead, prompt and just hack it together, and let the AI help you refactor and perfect it (and yes, I see the problems with that too). And honestly, I love it ... I was starting to get bored, this put the spark back into my software career.

Before ChatGPT I tried Copilot many times, but it never felt use-full because it was restricting creativity while writing code. But with ChatGPT I feel like I can be as creative as I want and keep making prompt adjustments.

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So I am wondering, how are people really feeling about this? Is there a case for ADD? Are other people working this heavily with LLM's?

(PS. None of this was written by ChatGPT!)