alt Hacker NewsHmm interesting, I didn't realise people were using it as a typing replacement instead of having it work agentically. Does that mean when you want to change a line of code somewhere, you just prompt the LLM to replace line 334 with your changes etc? So do you not use the LLM autonomously at all then? Sounds like it since you're still doing the iteration yourself.
I do both. A lot of changes are "autonomous" like "add a new Django model to record a change every time the title or body is edited in the admin", but I also do more fine grained edits like "have the import script truncate to 400 chars" (instead of 250.)
Sometimes I'll make edits like 400 to 250 by hand, but if I'm prompting on my phone it's faster to have the model do it as navigating code in an editor and changing it at the exact right point is fiddly on a mobile keyboard - models can spot and account for typos, direct code editing can't.