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Just to continue my train of thought, because I keep coming back to this.

I think I was expecting that it will turn me into a FE developer and it will feel as natural and smooth as usual when I am in my element.

It didn’t. And the results weren’t what you would get from a real FE dev. And it felt unsatisfactory, stressful and ultimately hollow.

I guess _for me_ it would be fine for a throw away MVP - something that I don’t want to put my heart into.

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I think your intuition about this all is right. Maybe we’re holding it wrong, maybe it’s plateaued and won’t get better, or maybe it will get massively better. Whatever happens, I think it’s the right call to hold a sober opinion— LLMs are just another dumb, expendable tool.

If a tool does not consistently produce results, you HAVE to take that at face value. You can’t just remove the numbers bringing down the average and say you have reached 95% success. When you see polar opposite experiences from so many people, the only reasonable takeaway is “so it’s unpredictable, very hard to use, or both.”

For me it’s too easy to go too fast with an LLM helping you. You got to rein it in and do actual PR reviews so you can keep up with what the LLM is doing. That way when you inevitably need to dive down and handle the code, you’re ready to do so.

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