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How do you stay familiar with the code when it's written by an LLM?
As reliance on LLMs for coding increases, developers often lose familiarity with the code they produce, reducing their understanding of underlying decisions and structures. However, this understanding is still necessary to debug code and maintain the codebase as it grows. Some ways to maintain understanding are to sometimes type code personally, question design choices often, and explore context beyond the changes by asking the LLM questions about the codebase.
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