Comment by lucianbr
2 days ago
It sounds like it takes you at least 10 minutes to just write the prompt with all the details you mentioned. Especially if you need to continue and prompt again (and again?).
2 days ago
It sounds like it takes you at least 10 minutes to just write the prompt with all the details you mentioned. Especially if you need to continue and prompt again (and again?).
I mean, I typically do a lot more thinking than 10 minutes.
I’m writing some (for me) seriously advanced software that would have taken me months to write, in weeks, using Claude and ChatGPT.
It’s even unlikely I would be able to pull it off myself after a long days work.
The LLM doesn’t replace. It works in parallel.
> I’m writing some (for me) seriously advanced software that would have taken me months to write, in weeks, using Claude and ChatGPT.
Do you understand the code?
What was the speed up from months to weeks? You just didn't know what to type? Or you didn't know the problem domain? Or you found it hard to 'start' and the AI writing boiler plate gave you motivation?
In my experience with AI tools, it only really helps with ideation, most things it produces need heavy tweaking - to the point that there is no time savings. It's probably a net negative because I am spending all of my time thinking how to explain things to a dumb computer, rather than thinking about how to solve the problem.
Yes, I understand it very well.
The main advantage is I can run it in parallel and iterate often.
The speed up is also avoiding looking up reference manuals endlessly just to produce some Qt Widgets.
I’m a fairly recent convert, I only started “vibe coding” a couple of months ago, after hearing how good Opus was. I had been a skeptic until then.
I am a decentralist by nature and prefer open standards and self hosting. I’ve had my own *nix servers since I was twelve (nearing forty) so it really pains me to admit how good it is to use these corporate products.
I am not a programmer by trade. I use it to write software for my domain of expertise. The value of what I am creating is enormous.
Both ChatGPT and Claude produce good code, in my opinion.
Not the OP but, easily. My tasks are usually taking at least that, but up to hours of brainstorming and planning, sometimes I’ll do this over days in between other tasks just so I can think about all and pros and cons. Of course this has always been the way, but now I have an ongoing Claude session which I can come back to at any point, which is holding the context along with my brain. It’s much easier to keep the thread of what I’m working on across multiple tasks.