Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
I might hate the idea of poring over the Django documentation to figure out how to add tagging to my website, but I still fundamentally want to understand how it works. Just because a problem is boring doesn't mean I want to fully offload my understanding of the solution to a machine.Of course, I could review every single line of code the LLM produces. That's what most developers are expected to do in this cursed year of 2026.
- ▪I might hate the idea of poring over the Django documentation to figure out how to add tagging to my website, but I still fundamentally want to understand how it works.
- ▪Just because a problem is boring doesn't mean I want to fully offload my understanding of the solution to a machine.Of course, I could review every single line of code the LLM produces.
- ▪That's what most developers are expected to do in this cursed year of 2026.
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Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code 2 Aug 2026 at 2:53PM IST Despite what I said in April, I'm still using coding assistants on my personal projects.Using them to one-shot entire features leaves me unsatisfied and disoriented, but I do enjoy using them to fast-forward through the boring parts of my projects.However, allowing my coding assistant to roam free in my projects leaves me with a colossal amount of cognitive debt. I might hate the idea of poring over the Django documentation to figure out how to add tagging to my website, but I still fundamentally want to understand how it works.
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