Comment by soganess

Agreed! I hate the start of a project with an LLM. The code it writes is always expletive, and wrangling it with rules, hooks, plans, and what have you is just a series of half measures. I'm basically in a fistfight with a cheerful drunk keyboard.

Once there's enough code, tests, and docs to appease the prefill gods and give it an understanding of what I expect in terms of code quality, style, and TDD etiquette, I can expect more consistent performance.

That said, I've never been comfortable enough with it to let it write more than a few of functions at a time without a diff/checking-in.

I've seen folks with 500K LOC branches written by an LLM and my heart just sinks...