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Yeah… I'm quickly reaching the point where I'm quicker thinking and writing Python code than even writing the prompts. Let alone the additional time going through the generated stuff to adjust and fix things.
It's good to get a grip on syntax, terminology and as an overly fancy (but very fast) search bot that can (mostly) apply your question to the very code that's in front of you, at least in popular languages. But once you got that stuff in your head… I don't think I'll bother too much in the future. There surely are tons of useful things you can do with multimodal LLMs, coding on its own properly just isn't one of it. At least not with the current generation.
Yeah, I find LLMs are really nice for learning a new language when you know what you want to do, but not the specific syntax or best patterns. I've also found LLMs are great for stuff like crafting SQL queries, one off shell scripts, and building UIs. They can write certain kinds of code fairly well nowadays, but you want to keep the problem scope clear and focused.