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Author praises LLMs for abstracting away from disliked coding tasks like JavaScript

The author expresses a fondness for Large Language Models (LLMs) due to their ability to abstract away from unpleasant coding tasks, specifically citing JavaScript as an example of code they are happy to avoid. This perspective contrasts with engineers who lament not coding regularly, as the author believes actively engaging with code is crucial to their job. LLMs offer a way to produce code without direct, hands-on interaction with disliked languages. AI

IMPACT LLMs may enable developers to avoid engaging with disliked programming languages, potentially changing how code is written and maintained.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece from a user about their personal preference for LLMs over direct coding in certain languages.

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Author praises LLMs for abstracting away from disliked coding tasks like JavaScript

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    @ krans “async” and the “semicolons, except sometimes” makes me think this is about JavaScript. @ wingo JavaScript is another reason I actually kind-of like LLM

    @ krans “async” and the “semicolons, except sometimes” makes me think this is about JavaScript. @ wingo JavaScript is another reason I actually kind-of like LLMs a little bit. (The usual disclaimers still apply: yes, I agree with all the people who say LLMs are evil.) I always cr…