Had a newer employee rewriting some functions with LLMs, but not really admitting to it. I don't really care about the LLM aspect and think it can be quite useful with learning, but I would like to see newer people learning the system before unleashing LLMs entirely on it if that makes any sense. The same developer had a pretty hard time getting an if statement correct that simply checked the length of a string. Lots of mentoring ahead...
But I dunno. I kind of wonder how I would have acted with tech like this available when I first started years ago. As a young engineer and even now I live and breathe the code, obsessing over testing and all the thing that make software engineering so fun. But I can't say whether or not I would have overdepended on an LLM as a young engineer.
It's all kind of depressing IMO, but it is what it is at this point.
But I dunno. I kind of wonder how I would have acted with tech like this available when I first started years ago. As a young engineer and even now I live and breathe the code, obsessing over testing and all the thing that make software engineering so fun. But I can't say whether or not I would have overdepended on an LLM as a young engineer.
It's all kind of depressing IMO, but it is what it is at this point.