[cvwright]

LLMs are bringing us back to all the “proper” software engineering stuff that we’ve always known we should be doing, but until now we never had enough time/people/money to do it right.

Brainstorming and research before writing a design.

Writing a design or spec before writing the code.

Comprehensive unit tests.

Etc etc etc.

Like you, I get vastly better output from the tool when I create a detailed spec in markdown before I let it start coding. And bonus, the LLM is pretty good at helping with the spec too.

[dawnerd]

I’ve found the opposite. It’s making people lazy. We used to plan stuff and now it’s just dump this LLM created spec to an LLM and ship the code.

[greenchair]

Yes that too but performing detailed planning is a minority viewpoint from what I've seen till now. Many Devs jump straight to code after briefly skimming the jira record.

[greenchair]

yep and a side effect it is bringing back waterfall.