My gym mainly teaches offensive techniques and never defense. It's one of the most competitively oriented gyms in the area and has a decent amount of good fighters so I'm not sure if switching gyms would be that fruitful. What should I do? I've been told asking the coach to teach things outside of their plan as a beginner is disrespectful so I've stayed away from doing that.
Have a bunch of internships and 10 months of full time experience. Got promoted to SWE 2 a few months after joining. I am not that fast at developing, and I often need to build familiarity with different frameworks or tools before being able to work on something.
So I feel like my traditional development speed is like 10x slower than using LLMs. Add on the fact that I'm at a fast paced startup, and I feel like I can't ever justify doing trad dev.
When I see experienced devs on youtube talking about LLMs they're coming from a position where their hand development is like half the speed but twice the quality of LLMs. But being a new dev, for me trad coding is like 1/10th the speed and 1.25x the quality of LLMs which is just never justifiable in a business sense.
But if I never do trad dev then my skill level never increases, so I'm increasingly forced to use LLMs.
Not sure how to break this negative cycle other than dedicating even more of my life outside of work to coding. And even then, small personal projects don't quite build the same skills as working on production software at large scales.