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by pepoluan 92 days ago
You know, with all the babysitting needed, I wonder if effort is not better spent in just, you know, writing code.

Can you actually quantify the time & effort 'saved' letting LLM generate code for you?

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For me, personally, I'm building things that would have been impractical for me to do as cleanly within the same amount of time - prototypes in languages that I don't have the muscle memory for, using algorithms i have a surface level understanding of but would need time to deeply understand and implement by hand, and, at my pace, as a retired dev, is probably quantified in terms of years worth of time and effort saved.

edit: also, would I take the time to implement LCARS by hand? No. But with an LLM, sure, took it about 3 minutes or less to implement a pretty decent LCARS interface for me.