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by maest 18 days ago
> two orders of magnitude more productive

Shipping 100x more features per day?

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100x faster towards becoming an email client
Yes.
Do you have specifics? It would be interesting to see what kind of improvements are possible.
I just see in my usage that I can release tens of features a day, whereas I'd be able to release one or two a day usually. I don't know if it's 100x, but it's definitely more than 10x.

I've written up my process here:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-i-write-software-with-llms/

The biggest thing to get right is to let the LLMs do what they're great at (code implementation from very detailed specs, and code review), and you do what humans are great (architecture and making sure the high level of the implementation is sane). That way, you get the best of both worlds, and a lot of speed at high quality.

Thanks for the detailed explanation of your process, I think I'll try it out.
Can you show us the 10s of features you’re releasing daily now?
I made this in two days:

https://www.writelucid.cc/

Does this speed of development only apply to the early stages, or will it slow down as the codebase grows? I have yet to see these 100x improvements (and the claims themselves keep getting bigger) on anything more than prototype scale, rather than month-long projects.

No doubt AI boosters will claim we have found an O(1) productivity enhancer that is somehow two orders of magnitude better than anything else before. This is entering lunacy territory.

And it shows!