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by wruza 589 days ago
What is the point of “ramping up” though? You don’t learn much about how to prompt in the process, you just get worse results. So now I have my useless todo and ramp up to my code and it falls face first in the mud in the next sentence. I can chew up everything for it and explain where it’s wrong or re-prompt with clarifications, but the problem is, I write code faster than that and with less frustration, cause it’s at least deterministic. And I’m neither a rockstar developer nor too smart.

What I would like from LLMs is a developer’s buddy. A chat that sits aside and ai-lints my sources and the current location, suggesting ideas, reminding of potential issues, etc. So I could dismiss or take note of its tips in a few clicks. I don’t think anyone built that yet.