I’m finding trying to keep up with LLM advances for coding pretty disorienting…on one hand there are some real and magnificent breakthroughs, and on the other there is a lot of useless slop masquerading as breakthroughs.
Improved LLM models are already accelerating my productivity by several times, but I’m still seeing enough errors and anti-patterns, that I have a hard time believing the “you can do it all with prompts” and “you don’t need to review every line” camp isn’t being naive.
Mitch Downey :pci:
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