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The comment "@grok can you summarize" kills me. This post is like 200 words and takes a minute to read. Is this the direction we (or some of us) are headed?
For example, I wanted a dbt[0] like tool, but written in rust, specifically focused on duckdb. Claude Code knocked it out[1] it without much guidance.
Also added support for all duckdb output options (e.g. write to a partitioned parquet instead of a table).
0 - SQL transformation tool (https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core)
As a junior, this scares me. I don't think I'll be out of a job soon, but certainly the job market will change drastically and the times where SWEs are paid like doctors and lawyers will end?
So far LLMs are great at producing code, but not at architecture or maintenance.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you clarify what tools and programming language you use? If find that the issue often is wrong tooling, exotic programming languages or frameworks.
I would consider frontend tasks using Typescript and React quite standard.
Typed programming languages like Typescript, Scala, Haskell and so on will produce more errors -> you need to fix stuff manually. However it will also reduce bugs. So it is a mixed bag. For an error free experience python and JavaScript work very well.
When it comes to tooling, if you haven't used cline, roocode or aider (not as good) yet, you haven't seen what an AI can do.
A good starter would be starting fresh, by creating a README which describes the hole application you want to build in detail and let the AI decide the tech stack. You can most certainly build complex applications with an AI in blazing speed.
I must be the dumbest "prompt engineer" ever, each time I ask an AI to fix or even worse, create something from scratch it rarely returns the right answer and when asked for modification it will struggle even more. All the incredible performance and success stories always come from these Twitter posts, I do find value in asking simple but tedious task like a small refactor or generate commands, but this "AI takes the…
I'm using Claude 3.7 now and while it improved on certain areas, it degraded on others (ie: it randomly removes/changes things more now).
A single tweet with lots of analogy, with no screenshot/screen recording/code examples whatsoever. These are just words. Are we just discussing programming based on vibe?
It's influencer culture. It's like when people watch those "software developer" youtubers and pretend it's educational. It's reality television for computer people.
Complete with computer people kayfabe!
Sidenote: thank you for using twitter dot com instead of x. This is a little detail and I'm sure I'm not the only one appreciating it.
I no longer mind referring to it as X, because that clearly outlines that it's a different website with a much more rancid vibe.
I must be the dumbest "prompt engineer" ever, each time I ask an AI to fix or even worse, create something from scratch it rarely returns the right answer and when asked for modification it will struggle even more. All the incredible performance and success stories always come from these Twitter posts, I do find value in asking simple but tedious task like a small refactor or generate commands, but this "AI takes the…
After interacting with this tool, I decided it would be nice if the tool could edit itself, so I asked (him ? it ?) to create its next version. It came up with a non-working version of this https://gist.github.com/sloonz/3eb7d7582c33e95f2b000a0920016.... I fixed the bug manually, but it started an interactive loop : I could now describe what I wanted, describe the bugs, and the tool will add the features/fix the bugs itself.
I decided to rewrite it in Typescript (by that I mean: can you rewrite yourself in typescript). And then add other tools (by that: create tools and unit tests for the tools). https://gist.github.com/sloonz/3eb7d7582c33e95f2b000a0920016... and https://gist.github.com/sloonz/3eb7d7582c33e95f2b000a0920016... have been created by the tool itself, without any manual fix from me. Setting up the testing/mock framework ? Done by the tool itself too.
In one day (and $20), I essentially had recreated claude-code. That I could improve just by asking "Please add feature XXX". $2 a feature, with unit tests, on average.
I must be the dumbest "prompt engineer" ever, each time I ask an AI to fix or even worse, create something from scratch it rarely returns the right answer and when asked for modification it will struggle even more. All the incredible performance and success stories always come from these Twitter posts, I do find value in asking simple but tedious task like a small refactor or generate commands, but this "AI takes the…
> I do find value in asking simple but tedious task like a small refactor or generate commands, This is already a productivity boost. I'm more and more impressed about what I can get out of these tools (as you said, simple but tedious things). ChatGPT4o (provided by company) does pretty complex things for me, and I use it more and more. Actually, I noticed that when I can't use it (e.g. internal tools/languages), I'm…