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No. It makes you faster. You can prove it by looking at the lines of code.

Source: Gary Tan, who can write more code than Jeff Dean and John Carmack.

If you want to go really fast, you put a Ralph Wiggum dungeon. It's where you orchestrate a team of Ralph Wiggum loops together using subagents to win the economic Darwin Award which companies are handing out for who can burn the most tokens.

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You still need domain knowledge and a solid understanding of what you're doing/what you want to achieve.

If you don't have that, now that writing code is basically zero-cost now (in terms of time), you'll still be slow.

I think they were being sarcastic.

Yes. Sorry - my British sense of humor there!

Yes! I had to search who Ralph Wiggum is, had I known I'd have undestood the humour hah!

I thought he was some mad Karpathy-tier ML scientist or something.

He is, in a way.

For the last 10+ years I have routinely auto generated 90+% of the code needed for my work using a custom code generator. Only the biz logic had to be coded by hand.

That doesn't make me a super star or whatever. Just more efficient.

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