To each their own of course. It just seems like the productivity gains are perceptual, not actual.
For an enum to a switch, I just copy the enum values and run a regex on those copied lines. Both would take me <30s, so it’s a wash. That specific one would be trivial with most IDEs as well, just type “switch (variable) {” and it could autocomplete an exhaustive switch, all without LLMs.
Then again, I’m pretty old school. I still use vim as my editor (with language server plugins), and I’m really comfortable with those kinds of common tasks. I’m only going to bother learning to use the LLM if it’s really going to help (e.g. automate writing good unit tests).
To each their own of course. It just seems like the productivity gains are perceptual, not actual.
For an enum to a switch, I just copy the enum values and run a regex on those copied lines. Both would take me <30s, so it’s a wash. That specific one would be trivial with most IDEs as well, just type “switch (variable) {” and it could autocomplete an exhaustive switch, all without LLMs.
Then again, I’m pretty old school. I still use vim as my editor (with language server plugins), and I’m really comfortable with those kinds of common tasks. I’m only going to bother learning to use the LLM if it’s really going to help (e.g. automate writing good unit tests).