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mbestoyesterday at 4:44 PM1 replyview on HN

> There's a significant blind-spot in current LLMs related to blue-sky thinking and creative problem solving. It can do structured problems very well, and it can transform unstructured data very well, but it can't deal with unstructured problems very well.

While this is true in my experience, the opposite is not true. LLMs are very good at helping me go through a structure processing of thinking about architectural and structural design and then help build a corresponding specification.

More specifically the "idea honing" part of this proposed process works REALLY well: https://harper.blog/2025/02/16/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/

This: Each question should build on my previous answers, and our end goal is to have a detailed specification I can hand off to a developer. Let’s do this iteratively and dig into every relevant detail. Remember, only one question at a time.


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skydhashyesterday at 5:25 PM

I've checked the linked page and there's nothing about even learning the domain or learning the tech platform you're going to use. It's all blind faith, just a small step above copying stuff from GitHub or StackOverflow and pushing it to prod.

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