alt Hacker NewsLLMs are really great at copy/pasting answers from stack overflow and fitting them to work in a given system. If your work is outside what is answerable on stack overflow you're going to end up fighting the results constantly.
Front end pages like a user settings page? Done. One shottable.
Nuanced data migration problems specific to your stack? You're going to be yelling at the agent.
> LLM evangelists - are you willing to admit that you just might not be that good at programming computers? Maybe you once were. Maybe you never were.
A bit harsh considering that many of us used knowledge bases like SO for so long to figure out new problems that we were confronting.
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From my heavy experience using every frontier model for a year now, LLMs are actually probably much, much better at nuanced data migration problems specific to your stack than at a frontend user settings page. (Though still pretty good at both. And the user settings page will work, sure.)
> Front end pages like a user settings page? Done. One shottable.
This is only one shottable if you are high paced startup or you don't care enough. In real world software, you would need to make it accessible, store data in a complaint way, hook up translations, make sure all inputs are validated and do some usability testing.