Thoughts on LLM use from a programming junkie

I am an addict. No joke. After a full workday of writing code, I come home and hack on side projects. It's not healthy and I’m the first to acknowledge it. This is a real addiction, but is not taken seriously since its seen as “one of the good ones”. What’s changed recently isn’t how much I build, but how I build. For builders, there is that dopamine hit when many hours of effort turns into…