Comment on How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
irate944@piefed.social 1 day ago
I would love to read an independent study on this, but this is from Anthropic (the guys that make Claude) so it’s definitely biased.
Speaking for myself, I’ve been using LLM’s to help out with jumps in small gaps of knowledge. Like for example, I know what I need to do, I just don’t know/remember the specific functions or libraries that I need to do that in Python. LLM is extremely useful for these moments; and it’s faster than searching and asking on forums. And to be transparent, I did learn a few tricks here and there.
But if someone lets the LLM do most of the work - like vibe coders - I doubt they will learn anything.
suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I do the same. I start with the large task, break it into smaller chunks, and I usually end up writing most of them myself. But occasionally there will be one function that is just so cookie-cutter, insignificant to the overall function of the program, and outside of my normal area of experitise, that I’ll offload that one to an LLM. They actually do pretty well for tasks like that, when given a targeted task with very specific inputs and outputs, and I can learn a bit by looking at what it ended up generating. I’d say it’s only about 5-10% of the code that I write that falls into the category where an LLM could realistically take it on though.