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> Don’t let a computer write for you!

To play devil's advocate original code alienates you from many programming jobs. This was true before LLMs, and remains true now. Many developers abhor original code. They need frameworks or packages from Maven, NPM, pip, or whatever. They need to be told exactly what to do in the code, but copy/paste is better, and a package that already does it for you is better still. In these jobs, yes, absolutely let a computer write it for you (or at least anybody that is an untrusted outside stranger). Writing the code yourself will often alienate you from your peers and violate some internal process.






I don't think using dependencies or frameworks is any different than using a word processor for writing. They're tools that get you to the real work of writing original code.

Frameworks and language code packages are not code editors or IDEs.



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