Comment by dagss
6 days ago
Fresh example:
I described a problem on UI level. LLM suggested the Ramer-Douglas-Peucker algorithm to solve it, which I have never heard about before. It implemented it. Works perfectly. It is 40 lines of code (of which I only really need to review the function signature, and note the fact that it's a recursive bisection algorithm). I would have spent a very long trying to figure out what to do here otherwise and the LLM handed me the solution.
Yes this kind of work will be sped up a lot by AI since you are not familiar with the intricacies of the subject matter. Especially with well documented but complex formats it can assist (vector graphics are not necessarily intuitive). Additionally in my experience UI design is quite pattern and boilerplate heavy.
The suggesting of algorithms sounds good, I don't know how you got there but I would ask for several algorithms that fit the bill and narrow it down myself (the first suggestion isn't always optimal).
Thank you for taking the time to shine some light onto what you're doing as I can see how you get that kind of speedup from using AI in this scenario.