alt Hacker NewsI’ve been thinking for a while that these tools should be slower. This doesn’t mean lower quality, they could still think (ah wait, overthink) at same speed. I’d just like them to output text at the same speed I can read and understand. This would make it more like a conversation, where you hear the flow of concepts coming and at the same time think about it and get involved in the conversation. For some reason I enjoy more running a local LLM at 4 t/s than a faster than thought change to my whole codebase by Opus
'Slower' is not how I would characterize it because with the AI I am faster at producing code than without.
I rather think of it as 'controlled', and I am (hopefully, crossed fingers) getting more maintainable and better-designed results out of it long-term compared with my peers' results.