alt Hacker News> that general idea the models can figure it enough to write into an implementation plan
I'm not having much luck with it, they get lost in their own designs/architectures all the time, even the best models (as far as I've tested stuff). But as long as I drive the design, things don't end up in a ball of spaghetti immediately.
Still trying to figure out better ways of doing that, feels like we need to focus on tooling that lets us collaborate with LLMs better, rather than trying to replace things with LLMs.
Yeah, from what I can tell a lot of design ability is somewhere in the weights but the models don't regurgitate it without some coaxing. It may be related to the pattern where after generating some code you can instruct a model review it for correctness and it can find and fix many issues. Regarding tooling, there's a major philosophical divide between LLM maximalists that prefer the model to drive the "agentic" outer loop and what I'll call "traditionalists" that prefer control be run by algorithms more related to classical AI research. My personal suspicion is the second branch is greatly under-exploited but time will tell.