They’ll never be able to learn, though.

A LLM is merely a statistical model of its training material. Very well indexed but extremely lossy compression.

It will always be outdated. It can never become familiar with your codebase and coding practices. And it’ll always be extremely unreliable, because it’s just a text generator without any semblance of comprehension about what the texts it generates actually mean.

All it’ll ever be able to do is reproduce the standards as they were when its training model was captured.

If we are to compare it to a junior developer, it’d be someone who suffered a traumatic brain injury just after leaving college, which prevents them from ever learning anything new, makes them unaware that they can’t learn, and incapable of realising when they don’t know something, makes them unable to reason or comprehend what they are saying, and causes them to suffer from verbal diarrhoea and excessive sycophancy.

Now, such a tragically brain damaged individual might look like the ideal worker to the average CEO, but I definitely wouldn’t want them anywhere near my code.

Lick my balls.

My favorite use is actually just to help me name stuff.

Reverse dictionary lookup, more or less.

Now, that is something LLMs should be actually good at, unlike practically any other thing they’re being sold as being good at.

The junior developer can (hopefully) learn and improve.

KSA is dead in the water, though.

Blowing up Jeb is fun for the whole family, including Jeb.

Blowing up kittens is not fun, in any way, shape, or form, unless you’re a deranged psychopath.

No one will play such a game.

Yeah, maybe it’s because I learned git from the graph, but I find it really helpful when figuring out why a certain piece of code ended up looking like it does (the ability to see the changes made in every commit and open versions of the files at any point in history without checking out the commit is also very useful).

And yeah, if you need or want the command line it always lets you open a git prompt for you to do whatever you want, which is nice.

Also, again maybe because it’s what I’ve gotten used to, but I find the way it handles merge or rebase conflicts more useable (or rather less unusable) than any other I’ve tried…

Git Extensions.

It’s what they used at my job when I started, it does the job, and I’ve gotten used to it. 🤷‍♂️

Only an American would assume that when someone says people they mean companies instead of, you know, people. 🤦‍♂️