I take a hybrid approach. I will describe a simplified problem to the LLM, have it generate a well commented and reasonable approach for the problem. I then use that as a cheat sheet for implementing my actual code. This still gives me hands on codi and more control, without needing to agonize over the details of each coding technique.
I know if I leet code ground myself into the dirt, I’d get better, and more importantly: faster.
But there’s never been any payoff to me full-time coding.. not when the pay is close to coding, and my role wants me to address test tech debt or Nice To Haves tooling, and (until Go) I had to do my 9-5 work in a scripting language…
There’s now more days behind me than ahead, and I no longer want to understand low level details and theories about the kernel or TTY.
All progress is built on abstraction. It has to be.
