alt Hacker News> One thing I feel like a lot of us are missing is that we no longer have to worry about looking for a missing semicolon, typo, or off by 1 error, or manually combing logs to try and understand a problem.
This is what I hope for, but every time I use ChapGPT and similar, I get results which take work to optimize, so it saves me little time, if any. I admit I don't use paid versions of the A.I. stuff, so perhaps this is the reason.
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bigstrat2003 • today at 4:34 PM
The paid versions aren't actually better than the free ones in that respect. They still make mistakes more often than a human would, and you still have to carefully review what they put out. The only way to get a speed boost from LLMs is to give up on the quality of your software and just YOLO.
I have found, that the best way to prevent bad output with AI is proper planning, and also extensive end to end tests. - If it is implementing a design, I have it compare the screenshot with the mockup and get 97% similarity. - If it is a functionality, I have it spin up a browser/tv/mobile and check the output is what i asked for.
I also use plannotator for planning, that is an amazing tool! need to buy them some coffees for sure.