it’s also really easy to “fine, whatever” yourself into doing negative work when you’re really tired, in a way that’s impossible if you’re actually writing the code. with LLMs you can keep going past the point where you’d be unable to write a for loop by hand
saying that LLMs makes you lazy is mostly incorrect, and ignores one of the actually harmful things about them: it means that as long as you're still capable of talking, you're capable of working. you can overwork yourself in ways that were never remotely possible before
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