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Decisions, decisions, decisions…

Is this the right language to use? 🤷‍♂️
Is this the right framework to use? 🤷‍♂️
Is this the right approach to this problem? 🤷‍♂️

Many software developers are dogmatic and see things as "right" or "wrong"...

But the sooner you accept there is a spectrum between the "right approach" and "wrong approach", the better you'll sleep at night.

I don't use #LLMs in my daily #coding, and I don't want to. It is my impression that in this regard they are good for two things:

1. Inspiration if you are stuck on a problem.
2. API / SDK help.

I do not want to see LLM generated code in a pull request, just like I do not want to see code pasted directly from Stack Overflow. The job of a #programmer is to know what is being put into the code and have an opinion on how problems should be solved, and the best way to achieve this is to write the code yourself.

When you do use code generated from machine learning, you should be extremely suspicious about it to ensure it's doing what you expect it to. My habit from Stack Overflow is to type in the code myself to make sure I go over all of it.

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