Comment by the_sleaze_
10 months ago
This is my experience as well, as has been for over a year now.
LLMs are so incredibly transformative when they're incredibly transformative. And when they aren't it's much better to fall back on the years of hard won experience I have - the sooner the better. For example I'll switch between projects and languages and even with explicit instruction to move to a strongly typed language they'll stick to dynamic answers. It's an odd experience to re-find my skills every once in a while. "Oh yeah, I'm pretty good at reading docs myself".
With all the incredible leaps in LLMs being reported (especially here on HN) I really haven't seen much of a difference in quite a while.
Interesting. This is another problem aider does not experience. It works on a git repo. If you switch repos, it changes context.
I’m not affiliated with aider. I just use it.
I have a bet that many of the pitfalls people experience at the moment are due to mismatched tools or immature tools.