alt Hacker News> I don't think you can deny that the current generation of models makes questionable decisions sometimes
Sometimes, not enough to believe you that you can do it better. And even if you could, to believe that it's overall worth it to work in that way.
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jonplackett • yesterday at 9:33 PM
What still is true for all fields of LLMs: if you can’t tell they do it suboptimally, you are just not that knowledgable in that area.
It still applies to all things LLms can do from law to code to art to ideas.
They can do it - and very acceptably - but only to the untrained eye.
NorwegianDude • yesterday at 11:20 PM
To be fair, if LLMs were good at decisions, we would not need people.
You can work the way you want to work. In my experience, letting the agent make every decision leads to a big ball of mud that requires touching dozens of files to make a change. More context is needed, it burns through tokens much faster, and the agent takes shortcuts and builds technical debt. So the way I prefer to work is to have changes targeted to a single file or small set of files where I've defined the API. Maybe that will change in the future, I'm not set in stone here.