[roncesvalles]

>Productivity starts going down once you try to use LLMs in a large codebase and expect them to be as helpful as they were in a smaller one.

Exactly this. I've really tried to find use for LLMs in my big tech company SWE job and I just can't. The context is just too large, and not just the code context. In the time that I can "explain" everything to the LLM, keep iterating until it spits out something semi-useful and massage that into something I can merge, I'd rather just do the whole thing myself.

But it's amazing for greenfield personal projects.