Comment by signa11
5 days ago
> ... Still saves a lot of time vs typing everything from scratch ...
how ? the prompts have still to be typed right ? and then the output examined in earnest.
5 days ago
> ... Still saves a lot of time vs typing everything from scratch ...
how ? the prompts have still to be typed right ? and then the output examined in earnest.
A prompt can be as little as a sentence to write hundreds of lines of code.
Hundreds of lines that you have to carefully read and understand.
Are you not doing that already?
I go line-by-line through the code that I wrote (in my git client) before I stage+commit it.
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You also have to do that with code you write without LLM assistance.
Depends on what it is doing. A html template without JS? Enough to just check if it looks right and works.
Latest project I been working on. Prompts are a few sentences (and technically I dictate them instead of typing) and the LLM generates a few hundred lines of code.
not if you don't want to. speech to text is pretty good these days, and even eg aider has a /voice command thanks to OpenAI's whisper.