Comment by spicyusername
8 days ago
To be honest, I didn't think too hard about it. I just fired and submitted with the time estimates in there kind of randomly.
You are clearly a naysayer. I get it. I was one too for a long time. Then I found a workflow and a model that was clearly delivering results and that's what I use now.
It's only a matter of time before it happens to everyone, even you. Once you have the aha moment where it works for you, you'll stop asking everyone whether they really know if it's better.
The LLM-based workflow above produces good code at a speed at least as fast as my previous workflow and typically many, many, many times faster with the code produced often using designs I would have never thought of before being able to bounce ideas off an LLM first. The biggest difference, besides the time obviously, is that the energy I need to spend is in very different places between the two.
Before it was thinking about what I needed to do and writing the code.
Now it's thinking about what I need to do and reviewing the code.
Well, I'm not considering using any code generation outside of helper scripts because in my case coding is a negligible part of my work. If I didn't have the LLM, I would find and modify the tool it is lifting code from using pre-LLM Google.
I know asking one of these LLMs to produce a document from my notes, resulted in me having to review this professional and plausible-looking yet subtly wrong document for more hours than it would have taken me to produce the document from scratch.