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therealdrag0today at 6:06 PM3 repliesview on HN

Are you a staff level engineer that has dozens of other engineers banging away at code projects you help define?


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eskatoday at 6:14 PM

Try to write a design doc before you implement something (which people find they need to do for LLMs to work at all anyway). You’ll find that you spend much less time actually writing code.

Write proper API documentation laying out the assumptions and intent, generate some good API docs, write a design and architecture document (which people find they need for LLMs to work at all anyway). You’ll find that you spend a lot less time reading code.

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bborudtoday at 6:16 PM

It has varied over the years but it isn't actually relevant since I am talking about when I write software.

Writing code just isn't what takes time.

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kakaciktoday at 7:07 PM

I am not, yet actual coding is miniscule part of workflow. The rest is cca un-automable by any llm - politics, meetings, discussions, brainstorming, organizing testing teams, stakeholders and so on.

This is how big corporations look like, not some SV startups.