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The current state of LLM-driven development

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Re: The current state of LLM-driven development

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> my own https://tools.simonwillison.net/colophon collection has grown to over 120 What in the wooberjabbery is this even. List of single-commit LLM generated stuff. Vibe coded shovelware like animated-rainbow-border [1] or unix-timestamp [2]. Calling these tools seems to be overstating it. 1: https://gist.github.com/simonw/2e56ee84e7321592f79ceaed2e81b... 2: https://gist.github.com/simonw/8c04788c5e4db11f6324ef59621…

Cool right? It's my playground for vibe coded apps, except I started it nearly a year before the term "vibe coding" was introduced. I wrote more about it here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/21/claude-artifacts/ - and a lot of them have explanations in posts under my tools tag: https://simonwillison.net/tags/tools/ It might also be the largest collection of published chat transcripts for this kind of usage from a…

what on earth?

these are absolutely trivial, toy example programs. they've got nothing to do with anything that anyone is meaningfully talking about when they talk about using LLMs for coding stuff.

is this kind of stuff what you're referring to when you comment on using LLMs for programming?

clone, i dunno, https://github.com/minio/minio, and ask the LLM to implement a non-trivial feature -- this is what everyone else is talking about! not "implement a YAML to JSON converter in the browser"

Re: The current state of LLM-driven development

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>Genuine question - are people comfortable with this? It's a question of degree, but in general, yeah. I'm totally comfortable being reliant on other entities to solve complex problems for me. That's how economies work [1]. I neither have nor want to acquire the lifetime of experience I would need to learn how to produce the tea leaves in my tea, or the clean potable water in it, or the mug they are contained within,…

> My dad doesn't need to know how to do algebra to get his taxes done, he just has an accountant. This is not quite the same thing. The AI is not perfect, it frequently makes mistakes or suboptimal code. As a software engineer, you are responsible for finding and fixing those. This means you have to review and fully understand everything that the AI has written. Quite a different situation than your dad and his accou…

Well. Not really. You're still liable for your own tax return or the IRS will fry your ass. Kinda' the same TBF.
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