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Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

423 points · 507 comments · lladnar

QuantumNoodle · 1785956641 · focus · HN ↗
A hobby is something you enjoy the process of doing, not just the end result. Everybody likes a clean home, but cleaning is rarely a hobby. LLMs expedite achieving the end result. Take from that what you will.
1. bawolff · 1785958419 · focus · HN ↗
  I think part of it though is that LLMs (especially in novice hands) create code that is more difficult to review and has subtler bugs. Code review is (for many) the least fun part of programming.
  Like imagine if your hobby was cooking, but you hated the cleanup. If you buy a robot that automates the fun part at the cost of making twice the mess, that is not a good trade off no matter how many extra cookies you end up with.
  1. LPisGood · 1785958821 · focus · HN ↗
    It is probably a good trade off if you sell cookies or if you vastly prefer eating cookies to making cookies.
    bawolff · 1785959628 · focus · HN ↗
    Sure, and that probably explains why companies (who sell software) love AI while hobbyists who just like to program hate it.

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