Comment by quesera

1 day ago

> tools that reliably turn slapdash prose into median-grade idiomatic working code

This may be the crux of it.

Turning slapdash prose into median-grade code is not a problem I can imagine needing to solve.

I think I'm better at describing code in code than I am in prose.

I Want to Believe. And I certainly don't want to be "that guy", but my honest assessment of LLMs for coding so far is that they are a frustrating Junior, who maybe I should help out because mentoring might be part of my job, but from whom I should not expect any near-term technical contribution.

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tptacek  1 day ago

It is most of the problem of delivering professional software.

  • quesera  1 day ago

    Not in my experience.

    The only slapdash prose in the cycle is in the immediate output of a product development discussion.

    And that is inevitably too sparse to inform, without the full context of the team, company, and industry.

    • akerl_  1 day ago

      Sorry, are you saying "the only place where there's slapdash prose is right before it would be super cool to have an alpha version of the code magically appear, that we can iterate on based on the full context of the team, company, and industry"?

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