by dtagames on 6/4/2025, 6:26:05 PM
Use the LLM as the ultimate pair programmer to level you up. Make it explain things that you don't fully understand and be sure they sink in before they get implemented.
The agent's access to vast repositories of code you've never seen can be super helpful in expanding your mind and your options. Just make it teach you and question it on everything until you're fully onboard.
In indie game dev, this has been a huge advantage for me. Working with the LLM makes it fast enough that the extra time to stop and learn something that we wouldn't take in a normal production environment becomes worth doing.
One thing I have posted here about before was a feeling of becoming slightly stupider and lazy each time I ask one of the plethora of AI coding assistants to do some of my work. To combat this, I pretty much stop myself using these tools, very similar to how I allow myself only 30 mins per day on HN :)
However, now I am trying to launch another company - and I have the feeling that I cannot allow myself to not leverage the possible speed benefits of AI generated code as its no longer an intellectual endeavour but rather a competitive one.
Does anyone out there feel similar, torn between true learning and pace of launching? If so, how do you deal with it? Do you try and keep yourself sharp in other ways?