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Comment by namaria

10 months ago

> Now, I could totally see a scenario where if I spent time tweaking prompts, writing rule files, and experimenting with different models, I could improve that output significantly.

I think this is it. Some people are willing to invest the time in writing natural language code for the LLM.

> I spent time tweaking prompts, writing rule files, and experimenting with different models, I could improve that output significantly. But this is being sold to me as a productivity tool. I've got code to write, and I'm pretty sure I can write it fairly quickly myself, and I simply don't have time at my start up to muck around with babysitting an AI all day -- I have human junior engineers that need babysitting.

I agree and this is the divide I think: skeptical people think this is a flimsy patch that will eventually collapse. I for one can't see how trying to maintain ever growing files in natural language won't lead to a huge cognitive load quite soon and I bet we're about to hear people discussing how to use LLMs to do that.