> but I do see I'm a lot "lazier", even stuff that used to be routine when I started coding now feel heavy.
Not getting that quick dopamine hit the LLMs give you..
Some say you can re-train your system to get back the dopamine hits you used to get from other things, like the enjoyment of the "old fashioned" manual coding and math. Getting there is hard work. And YMMV.
I just do things manually and ask LLMs to check my work. That seems to be working great for me.
I had the most Russian of Russian bosses when I was in college. My first day on the job he so eloquently stated, "I am not your mother. Do not come to me with problems. Come to me with solutions. I want to know what you tried and what did not work."
His advice has served me well in many areas of life too. I try my best to treat LLMs no differently for domains I care about (not one-off little questions here and there).
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