Comment by codebolt
5 hours ago
There are many ways to use an LLM to generate a piece of software. I base most of my projects these days around sets of Markdown files where I use AI first to research, then plan and finally track the progress of implementation (which I do step-wise with the plan, always reviewing as I go along). If I was asked to provide documentation for my workflow those files would be it. My code is 99% generated, but I take care to ensure the LLM generates it in a way that I am happy with. I'd argue the result is often better than what I'd have managed on my own.
Yep pretty much same, although if I’m lax at any point of the reviewing (in-progress or final), I’d say the quality quickly drops to below my average manual effort, and then I don’t even have the benefit of thinking it all through as directly. I think getting really quality results out of LLM code generation for non-trivial projects still needs quite a bit of discipline and work.