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by halfmatthalfcat 2 hours ago
You're fighting a battle you can't win. Doesn't care what you think about those using LLMs, they will outproduce you and in corporate environments, shipping things is paramount. If I can ship 5 more things simultaneously with AI, I'm going to beat you even if you think you're creating "better" software.
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Example of whats been shipped?
Okay. I rebuilt my website in ~a month with the help of Opus 4.7/.8 and it would have taken me, unaided human, at least 6 months. Link's in my bio if you care.

Satisfied now? Will you stop asking this question? Thought not.

I'm looking at something fairly standard that can be made with a SSG. The "Written by humans" footer gave a good chuckle tho.
So look. I’m not trying to be a dick I promise.

But I took a look at your site and I don’t know if a month would be impressive for a new and unaided dev. It looks nice but yeah.

If you’re not a dev that’s totally cool but like… all I’m saying is this may not hit like you want it to.

Seriously a month? I could write a SSG itself to produce this site in a month.
Why would this have taken 6 months? No offense, but this is a few days work without llms (assuming the content already exists). This should not have taken a month.

Also, not trying to be an asshole. Props for not making it look like every other llm generated slop site, Its just not a great example.

the quantum slop argument : "yeah it's everywhere but no one ships it."
They don't out perform me though...