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Comment on Ask HN: Are LLMs useful or harmful when learning to program?

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LLMs will give you what you ask.

Case in point I asked LLM to generate some code for me. It didn’t use generics (a language feature) and gave me some shit code.

I had to prompt it several more times to give me generic code with better typings.

I think it would be helpful for a total nooblet to get a hang of the basics but I think if they rely on the LLM too much beyond a certain point they will face diminishing returns.

Think about it. There is so much knowledge in the world. Anyone can do anything to a satisfactory degree pretty quickly. But to really understand something takes experience and self-discovery. And I’m not speaking about master. Just expertise.

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