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Not if an LLM writes your code. I get thousands of lines of high quality Rust per day without ever stepping into VScode.

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Then why not just ask the LLM to explain what LSP stands for?

what's an "LLM"? ;3

How do you know it's high quality?

I made myself an expert at Rust before I started using LLM's, and I review the code.

You made yourself an expert in Rust and have never heard of an LSP?

This seems surprising to me given that Rust was one of the first languages to broadly advertise a toolchain and editor integrations which rely on the technology.

I just put VScode in vim mode and rely on its basic symbol completion. My goal has always been to write as little as possible by thinking out the minimum solution. The simpler the code, the easier it is to reason about and to maintain.

Props to you. I've been writing Rust for around 7 years now and I couldn't QA 1000s of lines per day.

We sample it, and upon finding problems, adjust the system to eliminate that class of problems in the future.

Did you just create a new account so you could keep arguing with people?

Yes. HN is groupthink central, and enforces it through down votes, which marks the account as low quality, which then turns off commenting for that account. It is a classic negative feedback loop that enforces the groupthink. You can tell how many accounts I've created by the account number.

... Right.

> Not if an LLM writes your code. I get thousands of lines of high quality Rust per day without ever stepping into VScode.

LSPs are orthogonal to both LLMs and VSCode. For example, see Metals[0].

0 - https://metals-lsp.org/

So you're not a programmer, and therefore aren't part of the audience for a programming tool.

Very little quality, let alone high-quality, code is written in VSCode.

This is an astonishing assertion. Can you back that up with evidence?

You've got to re-evaluate... something if you genuinely believe that. Pretty much the same level of sanity as "very few good films use CGI".

I'd go as far as ask "what is your IDE of choice?" during the interview and rejected candidates that answer VSCode and VSCode clones. Now it doesn't matter because of LLMs though.

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