@nickynah
As with anything, it depends.
If I ask an LLM to generate a skeleton version of something using a technology that I'm not at all familiar with so that I can get started, then it is not causing deskilling, on the contrary.
If I ask an LLM to describe in plain English what some code that I wrote, and I find that the description does not match what I thought, then I've just found a bug. That too is the opposite of deskilling.
@bagder
As with anything, it depends.
If I ask an LLM to generate a skeleton version of something using a technology that I'm not at all familiar with so that I can get started, then it is not causing deskilling, on the contrary.
If I ask an LLM to describe in plain English what some code that I wrote, and I find that the description does not match what I thought, then I've just found a bug. That too is the opposite of deskilling.
@bagder
@nickynah
Yes, sure, if you stop writing code by hand and put everything in the hands of the LLM then that's a different matter entirely. As with any tool that allows you to generate code though (bison/flex are other examples), it can be used dumbly and smartly, and the downsides that you mention, while real, aren't universal.
@bagder
Yes, sure, if you stop writing code by hand and put everything in the hands of the LLM then that's a different matter entirely. As with any tool that allows you to generate code though (bison/flex are other examples), it can be used dumbly and smartly, and the downsides that you mention, while real, aren't universal.
@bagder
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@nickynah
The 'so that I can get started' is the crucial part here. If I have an LLM generate a skeleton that I can build upon further without using the LLM, then that can help me learn.
Of course that doesn't apply if you take the LLM output and then never look at it. But if the skills of that technology weren't there in the first place, then you using an LLM is also not making you lose any skills.
@bagder
The 'so that I can get started' is the crucial part here. If I have an LLM generate a skeleton that I can build upon further without using the LLM, then that can help me learn.
Of course that doesn't apply if you take the LLM output and then never look at it. But if the skills of that technology weren't there in the first place, then you using an LLM is also not making you lose any skills.
@bagder