I occasionally use it as a sounding board but yeah, if programming is about self expression then how much of your self are you really expressing when the LLM is burping out all the answers for you?
I may give it occasionally something trivial to implement or ask it for an algorithm (and for heaven's sake double and triple check it) but it's not a major player in my recreational programming.
Now, as far as the corporate world, I came from there.
And to roughly quote Tsoding, there is
very little programming left in the corporate world.
Those guys are mostly writing glue code and many can't design much from scratch.
So, it doesn't bother me as much because there is little REAL programming there anymore.
I strongly feel that the hard and interesting stuff is now being done for free and companies are just slurping up Open Source stuff damaging employing those kinds of "real programmers".
Now my Wendy's App was showing upside down and many websites are a terrible mess as vibrators vibrate out the new vibe code. SO yeah, we are suffering indirectly.
The real cost of course will be all the technical debt LLMs cause because they can often fail to catch disasterious edge cases. And this new generation of code vibrators don't have the expertise to catch subtle edge cases.
Anyway that's about my $6 for what should be 2 cents.
