Comment by mattmaroon
21 hours ago
Yes, in both cases it takes someone to steer. It’s not a complete solution. Someone who can’t drive can’t just ride a Tesla around town and someone who can’t program can’t vibe code anything complex.
But if it can do 90% of the work for you, it is a serious force magnifier.
> But if it can do 90% of the work for you, it is a serious force magnifier.
Well, we could characterize a Tesla as doing 90% of the work but it's not at all a force multiplier. Your 10% contribution stops you from doing anything else.
You didn't mention it was rewriting the codebase from scratch. That's the consensus, that AI is only good at scaffolding.
Oh it can't do 90% of the work for you. It CAN type 90% of the work for you, but someone still has to read the code and know what the best course of action is, supposedly...... I suppose some people never learned to use their IDEs or to touch type so as to find LLMs such a crazy productivity boost.