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A lot of the time?

What kind of code are you writing, if I may ask; and how long have you been doing it?

I sometimes ask whatever AI open ended questions on subjects I know very little about, and sometimes I find some kind of starting point for less random research using better tools.

Beyond that, and whatever fancy autocomplete my IDE forces down my throat, nope.

If if was gone tomorrow I would barely notice.



I've been leaning hard on LLMs to help me write code for just over two years now. I mainly work in Python and JavaScript, which are both languages that LLMs are extremely good at, but I also use them for languages I hardly know at all like jq and Bash and AppleScript and Go.

I've published a ton of notes on this here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-programming/ and https://simonwillison.net/series/using-llms/


And what kind of experience do you have using these languages?


I co-created Django. I've been writing about JavaScript since 2002. https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript/


What kind of code is the LLM writing for you that you see as such a big win?

Sorry, about the interrogation, but I'm curious to understand this disconnect between us. To me, for my way of working, LLM's are obviously mostly useless, destructive to the process even.




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