I have lately been writing a decent amount of Svelte. Svelte and frontend in general is relatively new to me, but since I’ve been programming for a while now I can usually articulate what I want to do in English. LLMs are totally a game changer for me in this scenario - they basically take me from someone who has to look everything up all the time to someone who only does so a couple times a day.
In a way LLMs are ushering in a kind of boilerplate renaissance IMO. When you can have an LLM refactor a massive amount of boilerplate in one fell swoop it starts to not matter much if you repeat yourself - actually, really logically dense code would probably be harder for LLMs to understand and modify (not dissimilar from us…) so it’s even more of a liability now than in the past. I would almost always rather have simple, easy-to-understand code than something elegant and compact and “expressive” - and our tools increasingly favor this too.
Also I really don’t give a shit about how to best center a div nor do I want to memorize a million different markup tags and their 25 years of baggage. I don’t find that kind of knowledge gratifying because it’s more trivia than anything insightful. I’m glad that with LLMs I can minimize the time I spend thinking about those things.
In a way LLMs are ushering in a kind of boilerplate renaissance IMO. When you can have an LLM refactor a massive amount of boilerplate in one fell swoop it starts to not matter much if you repeat yourself - actually, really logically dense code would probably be harder for LLMs to understand and modify (not dissimilar from us…) so it’s even more of a liability now than in the past. I would almost always rather have simple, easy-to-understand code than something elegant and compact and “expressive” - and our tools increasingly favor this too.
Also I really don’t give a shit about how to best center a div nor do I want to memorize a million different markup tags and their 25 years of baggage. I don’t find that kind of knowledge gratifying because it’s more trivia than anything insightful. I’m glad that with LLMs I can minimize the time I spend thinking about those things.