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Years back, I don't know 15 - 17 years ago, I got hired as a .Net developer. I worked with people a lot smarter than me, and some who just didn't really knew what the hell they where doing. But everyone is nice and help each other. One day a less experience colleague is asking whole bunch of small trivial questions, one after another, for the duration of the day. Me and another co-worker, busy with our own stuff, answer the questions as quickly and succinctly as possible. At the end of the afternoon the guy finally ask if we could look at his code, because he can't really make it work. Every question he had asked was a small building block to whatever he was working on, but now he was stuck because in his context he was asking the wrong questions and every time something wasn't working he'd just attempt to slap on more code. There was no design, no rational plan for how this was even suppose to work.

In this case we took our colleague to a whiteboard, and helped him do an actual design and helped him ask the right questions. LLMs won't question what you're doing, they will happily answer all your questions and help you pile on line after line of broken logic.



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