Comment by bluefirebrand
3 months ago
> I can do other things while coding
Context shifting while trying to code seems like a bad idea to me
Maybe you're some incredible multi -tasking genius able to change tasks rapidly without losing any of the details, but I suspect if most people tried this workflow they would produce worse code and also whatever their other output is would be low quality too
For me, the most time consuming parts of coding don’t require deep meaningful thought. It’s often things like stepping through code to figure out where something breaks (answer is often obvious once you find it) or iterating through broken specs or simply playing with a library/interface enough to figure out how it actually works (vs how’s it’s documented)
This type of stuff is great to have an LLM tackle while I work on something else.