Being A 1.5-10x Developer

A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But the thing is, LLMs are very flexible. And you can use them just as effectively to write high-quality code more slowly. This statement seems completely obvious to me at this point, and I almost didn’t want to write this post for that reason. But there seem to be enough people convinced that LLMs are only good as slop cannons that it’s worth making the opposite case. — Using AI to write better code more slowly Much like Nolan, I’d like to make the case against LLMs as slop cannons. Just because there are developers out there shipping 10,000 lines of code a day doesn’t mean you have to be one of them. LLMs are a very flexible tool that you can mold how you see fit. If you prefer writing more high-quality code to shipping 10,000 lines of code a day, then you already have the tools to do so! If I…