Programmer Humor

Sure, but those words have been coined by the nerds, or those that don't try to sell you anything at least. The guy very much wants to sell you vibe coding and LLMs and whatnot.

And reflog!

Oh! It was reflog, sry.

Anything can be derogatory if you try hard enough

Which is also not a real use-case. Like, just check your work, you don't need a tool for that.

Hell I don't even use spell-check because it's just distracting, and it's a fundamentally wrong way to think about language.

What do you mean? It's a problem in your way, it takes how long it takes to get through it

To me the disadvantage would be, the library likely does many more things than just what you need it for, so there is way more code, so you probably can't realistically read and understand it yourself before incorporating it. This would lead to among other issues the main thing that irritates me about libraries; if it turns out something in it is broken, you are stuck with a much bigger debugging problem where you first have to figure out how someone else's code is structured.

Although I guess that doesn't apply as much to implementations of common algorithms like OP since the library is probably solid. I would consider favoring LLM code over most anything off npm though.

AI is great for when you're typing out 30 slight variations of the same thing, and you can just be like "see what I'm doing here? Do it for the other 30 variables" and it does it just fine.

It's taught me a few new tricks. It's good at short bits of code, but anything longer is likely to have problems that take as much time to fix as writing it yourself to begin with.

I also find learning something new to be much faster when you can just ask a question about best practices or why something works like it does.

I don't think it's necessary to strictly avoid it by any means, it's quite a useful tool. You just have to use it appropriately, similar to stack overflow in some ways. That said, obviously you should use / avoid whatever tools as you want.