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Simon Willison
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At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars... Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools

Luke VanderHart
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Inclined to agree, however, although one certainly *can* argue about this, it’s pretty low stakes. There’s little to be gained from persuading someone that they’re wrong (in either direction.)

Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

Something I genuinely worry about is software developers who fall into the immovably anti-AI camp in a way that is detrimental to their career, when their decision making was strongly informed by belief that it's not actually useful to their craft

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Simon Willison
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I'm absolutely fine with developers knowingly opting out of AI assistance for ethical reasons - and being willing to accept any career implications that might have as the price of staying true to their principles. I admire that! But I want them to have accurate information