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by josephg 23 days ago
I was listening to a podcast talking about this the other day. They encouraged non-programmers to use LLMs to make working demos of the features they wanted to have. A demo is a much more powerful communication tool than a written description. Speaking as an engineer, a working demo makes a way better spec to work off than 100 pages of words. Even if the code itself will be completely rewritten.

I think this is a wonderful use case for LLMs. Who knows if regular people will try it out. We've spent decades making people feel like software is some special techy thing that regular mortals should stay away from. LLMs make it easy for anyone to turn an idea into a prototype.