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fourtharktoday at 2:04 AM1 replyview on HN

This is exactly what the article is about. The tradeoff is that you have to throughly review the plans and iterate on them, which is tiring. But the LLM will write good code faster than you, if you tell it what good code is.


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reg_dunloptoday at 3:02 AM

Exactly; the original commenter seems determined to write-off AI as "just not as good as me".

The original article is, to me, seemingly not that novel. Not because it's a trite example, but because I've begun to experience massive gains from following the same basic premise as the article. And I can't believe there's others who aren't using like this.

I iterate the plan until it's seemingly deterministic, then I strip the plan of implementation, and re-write it following a TDD approach. Then I read all specs, and generate all the code to red->green the tests.

If this commenter is too good for that, then it's that attitude that'll keep him stuck. I already feel like my projects backlog is achievable, this year.

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