But I’ve been doing this for years.

Naaw, just when things started to get interesting…

I do wonder why so many devs seem to have so wildly different experiences? You seem to have LLM’s making up stuff as they go, while I’m over here having it create mostly flawless code over and over again.

Is it different behavior for different languages? Is it different models, different tooling etc?

I’m using it for C#, React (Native), Vue etc and I’m using the web interface of one of the major LLM’S to ask questions, pasting the code of interfaces, sometimes whole React hooks, components etc and I get refactored or even new components back.

I also paste whole classes or functions (anonymized) to get them unit tested. Could you elaborate on how you’re using LLM’S?

Where I live, they keep pushing the retirement age upwards, so I’m looking at working until I die at the ripe age of 79 or something

It’s bad over there, isn’t it? In your opinion, are LLM’s causing the downward trend in the job market?

At least where I work, we’re actively teaching the junior devs on best practices and patterns that are tried and true. Like no code copying, small classes with one task, small methods with one task, separating logic from the database/presentation, unit testing etc.

Edit: actively, not actually

Maybe we live and work in different parts of the world?

Exactly, it’s just another tool in the toolbox. And if we can use that tool to weed out the (sometimes hilariously bizarre) bad devs, I’m all for it.

But that’s point of my post, how can they take junior devs jobs if they’re all hallucinating constantly? And let me tell you, we’re hiring juniors.

So you’re not in the “they’re only hallucinating” camp, I take it? I actually start out with a solid mental model of what I want to do, ending up with small unit tested classes/functions that all pass code review. It’s not like I just tell an “AI” to write the whole thing and commit and push without reviewing myself first.

Edit: and as I commented elsewhere in this thread, the way I’m using LLM’s, no one could tell that an LLM ever was involved.

Yeah, I had the exact same problem as OP, except that I didn’t lose my virginity. Also, Gentoo won’t boot.