Ive been using llms for about 3 years now to help me do my job, mainly very complex data analytics. Before llms I was a novice coder and would have to spend a ton of time combing through online forums or brute force trial and error solutions endlessly in order to get my models to function properly. I can explain what the code does retrospectively, but if you asked me to write if from scratch, no fuckin way, id be back to textbooks, stack exchang, cold emailing package maintainers begging for help. Lllms changed all that for me. It sped up the process like 10x or maybe even infinitely because I now feel empowered to attempt things I never would have been able to even think about before. At least thats what I thought, but im kind of waiting for the day when a “real” coder looks at my code and says its just slop. I mean i guess im just wondering, maybe I only think I am making this incredible progress because I really havent been held accountable for my code, and if it works it works right? Like who cares if my code sucks, it does what I need it to do, I dont need it to be hardened against cyberattacks or someshit, Im just producing statistical tables at the end of the day. Its like a major imposter syndrome developing. Honestly I hope this feeling might actually make me a better coder in the end if I just hold myself accountable. Anyone else in here experiencing this? submitted by /u/Foreign_Coat_7817
Originally posted by u/Foreign_Coat_7817 on r/ClaudeCode
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