I don’t know if it’s from Calm Technology, but here something that i read about recently: Don’t make humans act like a computer and don’t make the computer act like a human.
The first part is something I believe in this case. It’s ok to think with pen and paper (and I do when trying to find an algorithm) But I stop short of implementation details, instead typing out code. Why? Because text editors is much more flexible in this particular case (live programming environment, REPLs, or a quick code-compile-run cycle are much more useful)
And the second part is why I don’t like LLMs for code generation. Snippets are more deterministic. I’m ok with it for suggestions of ideas I can explore (in books, not with the LLM)
The first part is something I believe in this case. It’s ok to think with pen and paper (and I do when trying to find an algorithm) But I stop short of implementation details, instead typing out code. Why? Because text editors is much more flexible in this particular case (live programming environment, REPLs, or a quick code-compile-run cycle are much more useful)
And the second part is why I don’t like LLMs for code generation. Snippets are more deterministic. I’m ok with it for suggestions of ideas I can explore (in books, not with the LLM)