Comment by germandiago

> LLMs shift your focus on project management and architectural choices.

And a comfortable sense of short term productivity that make you tend to ignore the middle and long-term trade-offs.

It is unmaintainable unless you create a very modular architecture (read here: modules written by LLMs that will not get in the middle of others bc of their extra fat).

And even with a modular architecture, I am not convinced.

However I had a couple of success stories in the generative area, maybe bc I am so stupid that I do not detect the problems: SQL query/code generation and frontend Alpine.js-based for a small website.

Also good for one-off scripts.

But when it is about a project where you iterate for weeks, things get out of hand.

As a powerful search engine, exploring alternative solutions or doing code review, great. But the reason is not that it is extremely good at it. It is bc it is extremely fast at it and it is easy to recognize bogus stuff if you have been doing this for many years, so it saves you time. But still gives you inaccurate stuff.