Comment by itissid

The general process feels very much like having kids over for a birthday party. Except you have to get them all to play nice and you have no idea what this other kid was conditioned on by their parents. Generally it would all work fine, all the kids know how the party progresses and what their roles are — if any.

But imagine how hard it would be if these kids had short term memory only and they would not know what to focus on except what you tell them to. You literally have to tell them "Here is A-Z pay attention to 'X' only and go do your thing". Add in other managers for this party like a caterer, clowns, your spouse and they also have to tell them that and remember, communicate what other managers have done. No one has solved for this, really.

This is what it felt like in 2025 to code with LLMs on non trivial projects, with some what of an improvement as the year went by. But I am not sure much progress was made in fixing the process part of the problem.