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righthandyesterday at 5:36 PM1 replyview on HN

But “are you really moving at speed after you generate the majority of your application?” is my other point. If you were to start working somewhere with an existing product the changes you would apply are more than likely incremental. What is the advantage of using LLMs to change 1-10 lines of code on average? How do you measure the ROI for that?

What did the time savings gain you? A quicker release date? How can you prove that? “This would have taken weeks” is the old problem of project time estimation. How can I take any engineer seriously that they think they know it saved weeks?


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snomanyesterday at 6:33 PM

Considering that engineer never reliably estimated anything beyond a few days remotely accurately before… but now they can…

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