Thorsten Ball wrote a really thoughtful piece about LLM-based coding assistants. A lot of accomplished, productive engineers use them. Adaptability is important for software engineers. Why not dive in?I’m not passionately against coding assistants, but neither do I use them on a daily basis in my code editor. I use Claude occasionally to write some shell script or tell me how awk works. A lot of folks I respect are using these coding assistants all day. There’s obviously something there.Without ...