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Maybe that’s because the AI pushers are compensating for already not being as good.

What happens when other yous start using ai. I suspect they will obv outperform you just in sheer typing speed.

I don’t agree. There’s a “muscle” you train every time you think about problems and solve them, and I say muscle because it also atrophies.

But is the muscle the part where we copy and paste from stack overflow, and now ChatGPT, or is the muscle when there's a problem and things aren't working and you have to read the code and have a deep think? Mashing together random bits of code isn't a useful muscle, debugging problems is. If it's the LLM which mashes a pile of code together for me and I only jump in when there's a problem, isn't that an argument for LLM usage, not against?

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