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Comment by AdieuToLogic

4 hours ago

Nice strawman[0], but you avoided answering my core question:

  Speed of what?

With ad hominems and a non sequitur. How about I narrow the question with the hope it engenders a relevant response:

  How do LLMs increase the speed of a person understanding
  what needs to be done?

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

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CookieCrisp  4 hours ago

This argument feels like

A: The sky is blue! B: No it's not. A: Yes, it is, please look up. B: No, you must prove it to me through reason. A: But, if you would just pretty please look up. B: No.

I run a company, I've been running it for 10 years, we do alright. I'm a shitty manager. Every time I've hired developers, the business freezes. The business isn't anything super important, the main consequence of bugs is that my family loses money. Everything has always rested on my shoulders. In theory there is some path for me to become a good manager, but I never landed on it. But now, with Claude, it's great. So far Claude has paid itself off in real profits at least 20x over, and that's with significant API usage on top of the monthly sub. I can prototype new features in an afternoon that before were on my giant list of "maybe somedays if I ever get to breathe" list. Our user experience has improved in so many ways that I knew were probably worth it, if I could just find the time. Now I can.

There are situations where yeah, it probably isn't ready yet. But, there are so many where it's amazing. Seriously, it's worth looking up.

  • dgellow  3 hours ago

    You’re just plain wrong to assume people against agentic development do not have experience with the technology

    • CookieCrisp  3 hours ago

      I think there are many valid reasons to be against them - I think a lot of them are more right than wrong. It’s the “It can’t really do much” that I think must be from people that haven’t really tried it.

  • AdieuToLogic  3 hours ago

    This is a great case for the benefits of using GenAI, in that you already possess an understanding of what you want to achieve. You know what it is you want to prototype, what is on your "giant list of 'maybe somedays if I ever get to breathe' list", what you want to end up delivering.

    My point is and remains:

      A) GenAI did not give you this understanding.
  B) GenAI can only assist in your expressing this
     preexisting understanding.
  C) GenAI is a statistical token (text) generator and
     cannot, by definition, "make" a person understand
     what they want/need to do.