And sometimes an LLM can find those 10 lines in 10 minutes. Or it can find a 100 and you cut them down to 10 in two hours total. Yes I've seen this in practice. The amount of code an LLM can tirelessly ingest is super human.
Twenty minutes ago Claude digested about a dozen pipeline definitions, a sequence of build files and targets, read the scripts they use, found the variable that I could reuse for my purposes, and made the appropriate change in the right (looking) place, so that I'd be able to achieve my goals.
I could not have done this nearly as quickly. On the other hand, I gave it clear, precise instructions.
I could not have done this nearly as quickly. On the other hand, I gave it clear, precise instructions.