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Comment by risyachka

6 days ago

If the guy knew how to properly implement oauth - did he save any time though by prompting or just tried to prove a point that if you actually already know all details of impl you can guide llm to do it?

Thats the biggest issue I see. In most cases I don't use llm because DIYing it takes less time than prompting/waiting/checking every line.

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JimDabell  6 days ago

> did he save any time though

Yes:

> It took me a few days to build the library with AI.

> I estimate it would have taken a few weeks, maybe months to write by hand.

– > or just tried to prove a point that if you actually already know all details of impl you can guide llm to do it?

No:

> I was an AI skeptic. I thoughts LLMs were glorified Markov chain generators that didn't actually understand code and couldn't produce anything novel. I started this project on a lark, fully expecting the AI to produce terrible code for me to laugh at. And then, uh... the code actually looked pretty good. Not perfect, but I just told the AI to fix things, and it did. I was shocked.

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  • autoexec  5 days ago

    > I thoughts LLMs were glorified Markov chain generators that didn't actually understand code and couldn't produce anything novel.

    How novel is a OAuth provider library for cloudflare workers? I wouldn't be surprised if it'd been trained on multiple examples.

    • theshrike79  6 days ago

    Do people save time by learning to write code at 420WPM? By optimising their vi(m) layouts and using languages with lots of fancy operators that make things quicker to write?

    Using an LLM to write code you already know how to write is just like using intellisense or any other smart autocomplete, but at a larger scale.