Comment by noisy_boy
5 days ago
> but also says a lot of it comes down to just getting a feel for when the LLM is going to go haywire
That has been my experience too. The days when I'm very focused, being extra deliberate and constantly questioning/examining/challenging things, the results are much better. Autopilot days just go through in a daze and the outcome is objectively worse. This has made me much more hands-on and pushed me towards models which are actually not that "clever" like codex at effort=low but fast. Given that I'm doing the meat of the thinking, might as well not be slowed down by the model and lose the flow.
+1 to all of this. The challenge can be staying focused and thinking when the AI assistant is (1) moving very fast and (2) often times doing multiple things at the same time.
I know I have struggled to keep up, and fall into the trap of approving things (either commands or recommendations) without taking the time to really process and think about them.
It's a bit like the age old problem of "it's super easy to ask questions, and can be super hard to answer many of them". So the economy of the conversation gets out of whack fast.