alt Hacker NewsWhen I come upon an issue, I pretty much immediately copy/paste the code into an LLM, with a description of the context, symptoms, and desired outcome.
It will usually home right in on the bug, or will give me a good starting point.
It's also really good at letting me know if this behavior is a "commonly encountered" one, with a summary of ways it's addressed.
I've probably done that at least a dozen times, today. I guess I'm a rotten programmer.
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farhanhubble • today at 5:54 AM
There's a gut feeling that comes from having gotten your hands dirty enough that tells you if the LLM is being smart or spitting out bullshit.
I've completed actual features by saying "look up issue ABBA-1234 and create a plan to implement it" to Claude.
Then I wait, look through the plan and tell it to implement and go do something else.
After a while I check the diffs and go "huh, yea, that's how I would've done it too", commit and push.