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by ghuntley 466 days ago
Give it a try. You'll be surprised at what can be achieved when the LLM is driven via /specs (business requirements) + /stdlib (steering LLM technical outcomes). The end result, when driven by a good eval loop (property-based tests + compiler that provides soundness such as Haskell or Rust), is code outputted at brrrrrrrr speeds which is high quality.
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ohmygoodniche 466 days ago
Having seen and helped fix colleague and stranger generated LLM generated rust and typescript code I would rather not rewrite code all day to make it hold water. Doing that for Haskell would probably give me an aneurysm.
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20k 466 days ago
Every test I've ever tried with an LLM to get it to generate code has produced a complete unworkable mess. I have no idea what people are generating with them, but its always far less work to write something that I understand, rather than spend the time trying to fix up a complete disaster that barely even begins to touch the problem I asked it to solve
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Jcampuzano2 466 days ago
I'm not saying this is you but I have to ask as someone who has had success using LLM's but originally had this same mentality - what is the most recent model and tool you used to try to generate workable code?

If you tried it even just 3-6 months ago, in just this small amount of time tooling has had such a massive improvement that maybe you haven't tried it recently. I had your same experience when I tried before, but I have readily been able to get LLM's generate thousands of lines of actually useful and readable code for my job.

I tried generating code before and dismissed it because I had similarly bad experiences. But having generated myself now entire apps where I barely wrote any code that were actually usable and productive, including internal tooling, personal apps, and code that is client facing in production today, I don't think this really applies anymore. LLM's are more than capable of producing lots of high quality code given the right tools.

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YuukiRey 466 days ago
You’re digging your own hole by using “brrrrrrr speeds” as a marketing term. It doesn’t help your overall argument.
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