Programmer Humor

Holdup! You've got actual, employed, working, graduated juniors who are handing in code that they don't even understand?

The AI also enabled some very bad practices.

It does not refactor and it makes writing repetitive code so easy you miss opportunities to abstract. In a week when you go to refactor you're going to spend twice as long on that task.

As long as you know what you're doing and guide it accordingly, it's a good tool.

Yeah, I think personally LLMs are fine for like writing a single function, or to rubber duck with for debugging or thinking through some details of your implementation, but I'd never use one to write a whole file or project. They have their uses, and I do occasionally use something like ollama to talk through a problem and get some code snippets as a starting point for something. Trying to do too much more than that is asking for problems though. It makes it way harder to debug because it becomes reading code you haven't written, it can make the code style inconsistent, and a non-insignifigant amount of the time even in short code segments it will hallucinate a non existent function or implement something incorrectly, so using it to write massive amounts of code makes that way more likely.