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How I use LLMs as a staff engineer
What I use them for and what I don't
I frequently find myself making small tactical changes in less-familiar areas (for instance, a Golang service or a C library). For instance, I recently did a block of research which required pulling chunks of public data from an API, classifying it, and approximating that classification with a series of quick regexes. Smart autocomplete with Copilot Short tactical changes in areas I don’t know well (always reviewed by a SME) Writing lots of use-once-and-throwaway research code Asking lots of questions to learn about new topics (e.g. the Unity game engine) Last-resort bugfixes, just in case it can figure it out immediately Big-picture proofreading for long-form English communication
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