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A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers

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Re: A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers

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Yeah, but what about your productivity? You could commit and have to maintain 40% more code for the same pay if you had used an LLM.

> You could commit and have to maintain 40% more code for the same pay if you had used an LLM. that ... doesn't sound like a positive argument for using LLMs... was this sarcasm that totally passed me by?

It was indeed sarcasm

Re: A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers

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That's kind of the whole point. Setting up a few MCPs etc. is really a minor thing in the grand scheme of things. Sure, I have setup context7, Sequential Thinking, etc. and my Claude.md has a lot of details in it, but that only improves the accuracy so much. My whole point is that if the mindset is "I need this to be very accurate for it to work", then you're already putting too much effort into it. I personally have…

> They did really well in some things like ... devops Did they, though? I ask because the vast majority of people touting LLM as a huge win usually seem to speak from a.. DK-heavy perspective. As in, the bulk of their profession experience hasn't actually been doing the subject they're gushing about the LLM crushing. So I ask you, what is your level of devops experience to make such a dismissive, sweeping statement?…

I mean this for simple devops tasks, like if you need it to write you a Bash script that will clean out some empty caches or something it will one shot it most of the time. And for figuring out standard tasks like setting up deploy keys for some new doc system or updating the make files to handle some new build dependency. I still have devops engineers for anything difficult, but they get pestered with a lot less things they would find trivial that the rest of the teams would have asked them for help on before.
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