alt Hacker News> You didn't say anything positively or negatively regarding this so I made an assumption that you were using the LLM relatively unguided
I feel like this statement betrays your lack of advanced experience coding with LLMs.
OP's elaboration of the steps they are going through (planning, agreeing on plan, getting one LLM to draft execution plan, approving it, then executing with a separate LLM, then reviewing/testing) made it super obvious to me that they are guiding their LLMs quite considerably as part of their work.
Anyone making blanket statements about LLMs producing garbage is just telling on themselves about not having proper SDLC practices in place.
Planning, agreeing on a plan, separating planning and implementation LLM, using separate review LLMs, these are all table stakes. This isn't "guidance" if you're getting paid to write software. If you think "unguided" means "I typed a prompt into claude code and waited yolo" I don't know what to say but, you have a very different idea of what professionals do than I do.
I find for my own work that I need to read the diff the LLM produces then offer feedback on the diff in its own loop before I am satisfied, and this is after all the unattended QA steps through Codex Computer or Claude MCPs happen. Then auto reviewers come in and then reviewers come in. Of course, at our stage, we rarely have this luxury and it's only reserved for the very core of our codebase.
This is still much less guidance than we used to do for code before agents became popular. Even at Series A companies, before agents, we used to socialize tech specs, get buy-in from multiple engineers, create test plans, etc etc.
> Anyone making blanket statements about LLMs producing garbage is just telling on themselves about not having proper SDLC practices in place.
> I feel like this statement betrays your lack of advanced experience coding with LLMs.
Are we in school debate club? I don't know what's going on lol, I'm just curious how people are using LLMs! Is it just that irresistable to take a cheap shot at each other?