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I don't disagree.

I think there's some nuance here though between "fully anti-AI" and "be careful with that power saw."

That example I mentioned didn't make it to production. It got noticed and fixed more properly by the person who submitted the first prompt before it even went to PR.

But a lot of times things in that same vein can be solved sufficiently with a "dumb" prompt like that, so a one-line prompt to get a PR drafted in the background for the dumb stuff can be a pretty good time saver.

The art is not skimping on your attention to the bigger or more important stuff so much that all the time you save on first getting code written is lost by cleaning up stuff like that...

As a very amateur woodworker in addition to my day job, I have always thought the power tool analogy is a good one for LLMs. The tools don’t remove the need for skill and being very very careful with how you use them. You can work faster but do a lot more damage also.