[wtetzner]

I mean, unless you just don't know how to program, I struggle to see what value the LLM is providing. By the time you've broken it down enough for the LLM, you might as well just write the code yourself.

[acuozzo]

I've been writing code for over 20 years, mostly in C.

My only experience with vibe-coding is when working under a time-crunch very far outside of my domain of expertise.

No amount of "knowing how to program" is going to give me >10 years of highly-specialized PhD-level Mathematics experience in under three months.

[wtetzner]

The how do you know it got it right?

[acuozzo]

I was provided with a battery of externally-produced tests, benchmark scripts, etc. I was told to assume that the tests were comprehensive.

Independent of this, I used competing models produced by different organizations (e.g. OpenAI vs. Google) to test & verify each other's work.

I also could, somewhat, follow along with the math itself.

[baq]

Yeah, but LLM is simply faster, especially in this case where you know exactly what you need, it’s just a lot of typing.