Yeah, as a cs student, some professors allow use of LLM's because it is what will be a part of the job going forward. I get that, and I use them for learning, as opposed to internet searches, but I still manually write my code and fully understand it, cause I don't wanna miss out on those lessons. Otherwise I might not be able to verify an LLM's output.
Reminds me of the "Learn X the Hard Way" series, distributed as PDF I think, on the idea that if there's code samples you should transcribe them by hand because the act of transcribing matters.
Maybe that's an argument for simpler chat modalities over shared codepads, as forcing the human to assemble bits of code provided by the LLM helps keep the human in the driver's seat.
Yeah. My favorite professor this semester constantly says "hey, if you rely to much on the robot, and can't do this yourself, you won't get a job." I know some people are just here for the paper, but that makes me feel better when I'm having a hard time finding a new role..
