alt Hacker NewsHe’s not wrong.
Getting 80% of the benefit of LLMs is trivial. You can ask it for some functions or to write a suite of unit tests and you’re done.
The last 20%, while possible to attain, is ultimately not worth it for the amount of time you spend in context hells. You can just do it yourself faster.
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physPop • last Sunday at 1:41 PM
exactly. people delude themselves thinking this is productivity. Tweaking prompts is to get it "right" is very wasteful.
> The last 20%, while possible to attain, is ultimately not worth it for the amount of time you spend in context hells. You can just do it yourself faster.
I'm arguing that there's a skill that has to be learned in order to break through this. As you start in a new code base, you should be quick to jump in when you hit that 20%. But, as you spend more time in it, you learn how to avoid the same "context hell" issues and move that number down to 15%, 10%, 5% of the time.
You're still going to need to jump in, but when you can learn to get the LLM to write 95% of the code for you, that's incredibly powerful.