Comment by tedmiston
7 days ago
> What are you writing that Claude is actually writing all of it? Every time I get past the green field stage, I just end up throwing out what it writes half the time since its trash.
For the current state of frontier models, you need to break the steps down so that the LLM understands a process like what you might go through as you expect it (which is often different for everyone).
i.e., get it to agree to a spec, then get it to agree to a build plan, agree on unit test signatures, UI etc as needed, then let it build, ...
"Prompt engineering"
What role do you serve in this process?
I can take all of those steps, turn them into separate skills, then give them to a product manager or business analyst who makes half your salary, but has far more knowledge about the customers needs than you do.
A business analyst or product managers spends most of their time in meetings understanding customer requirements. Now they have to find time to build the project and fix bugs?
The business analyst use to hand off details to another person who would define detail technical specs like database fields names, type and size. Then the programmer would implement it.
the creative inputs to the whole process and judgment aspects of telling it how to refine and edit
>the creative inputs to the whole process and judgment aspects of telling it how to refine and edit
Why does that require an engineer? I think a business analyst or product manager could do that just fine.