> The longer you let it drive without constraints, the worse the wreckage gets. The velocity makes you think you're winning right up until the moment everything collapses simultaneously.In my experience (so far), I can’t let the LLM write too much in one go.
I need to test the hell out of what it gives me, and I can’t ask for too much, at one time.
I tend to ask it to “flesh out” functions, where I have a signature, and a detailed headerdoc comment. I will provide a lot of guidance about the context, often attaching relevant files.
Even then, it often doesn’t give me what I need, first time, unless it’s a small function, with extremely limited scope.
That said, it’s been extremely helpful. It has accelerated my development greatly.
I have found that it gives me much better PHP, than Swift.
I suspect that may be because PHP is extremely mature, and there’s millions and millions of lines of high-quality code out there, in open-source repos, while Swift is probably mostly in closed repos, with open stuff not really provided by experienced developers (it’s a proprietary language used for shipping commercial software, so that may also apply to other languages).
What it gives me in Swift, most closely resembles stuff that enthusiastic newer folks would do, and want to show off.