If the boss forces you to use LLMs in your workflow... just say that you already do.

Posted by PoopsCodeAllTheTime@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 189 comments

Make up whatever story about it, uh sure I write code so much faster now, or my emails, or solve my questions, oh yeah I am spending so much more of my energy on the creative persuit of this job...

Just get em off your case, move on, live life, clock out 15 minutes early if your work is really stressful, otherwise clock out before 3pm while working as slowly as possible. How could they tell if you are in fact using LLM or not? It does not matter whatsoever.

Sure, some places might have recently gone through their metrics like "the metrics must improve with LLMs!", that must have been annoying... but that's pretty much over now, the metrics will have moved with all the people using LLMs, or, most likely, the metrics did not change at all.

And if your boss is on your case because they got a history of your metrics and they want to see your metrics do a 360 frontflip just by chanting the spell of magical text generation, then.... just switch jobs once, you are never going to switch jobs for this reason again, you only need to do it once, and when you get your next job just tell em that you already use LLM, no one will be able of harrassing you again for your metrics, after all the metrics could not improve more if you are already using the magic potion.

Lets get this over with because this dead horse isn't recognizable as a horse anymore... yeah sure we are all using the LLM and it is not making a significant difference, or it is already making a significant difference for anyone therefore there is no additional advantage to be found, it couldn't matter less which one it is!