Comment by jongjong

I don't know what kind of LLMs you're using but mine (Claude) has never once in 6 months got the type incorrect; neither with JavaScript nor TypeScript. So what's the point of type safety if it never gets the type wrong?

All the LLM issues I face are related to incorrect priorities, choosing the wrong tradeoffs, UX and UI flaws or incorrect assumption about requirements.

Why would I want to fill up my context window with useless type annotations and waste tokens generating them? Just like I don't want to be distracted thinking about types when I code, I don't want my LLM to be distracted by them either. Also, I don't want to waste time waiting for the transpiler to build. I don't use bundling nowadays - Not necessary if I use plain JS; instead I preload all my frontend libraries and distribute them individually; better for caching and they still download in parallel. I don't have to invalidate the entire bundle cache just because I updated one script.

Also, I don't want my LLM to generate over-engineered enterprise code. My priority is to get stuff done, not achieve job security.