Comment by alfiedotwtf
3 hours ago
> As such, I use LLMs mainly to produce a rough draft of the code which I then iterate on heavily, at least until I like the general structure.
Weird… I would have said this was how it was about 2 years ago, but no way in 2026.
So many of the AI takes posted to HN are outdated.
People are still figuring out how to use LLMs/AI and considering how feelings based and hard is to reproduce many of the results people get, a lot of the improved approaches are basically at "trust me bro" reliability.
TBH i expect it'll take several years before people largely settle on what works good and what works bad (or doesn't work) and that's assuming things wont chance in a massive way during that time.
And this isn't really anything new, people rarely come up with some new way of programming and have everyone learn and understand best uses from the start - it takes years (and that is assuming everyone will agree that'd be something worth bothering about).