[TheAceOfHearts]

For me the biggest benefit from using LLMs is that I feel way more motivated to try new tools because I don't have to worry about the initial setup.

I'd previously encountered tools that seemed interesting, but as soon as I tried getting it to run I found myself going down an infinite debugging hole. With an LLM I can usually explain my system's constraints and the best models will give me a working setup from which I can begin iterating. The funny part is that most of these tools are usually AI related in some way, but getting a functional environment often felt impossible unless you had really modern hardware.

[christophilus]

Same. This weekend, I built a Flutter app and a Wails app just to compare the two. Would have never done either on my own due to the up front boilerplate— and not knowing (nor really wishing to know) Dart.

[chasd00]

I did the same thing but with react and supabase. I wouldn’t have done this on my own because of the react drudgery.

[unixhero]

Cool! With openclaw or with Claude?

[christophilus]

Claude.

[zorgz]

great point. llm breaks that initial fatigue where to start if you go outside of your comfort zone tech stack