Is it working for you? have you seen any performance increases?
Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
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#2Code autocompletion. I think it works around 60% of the cases, sometimes it saves some tipping. Performance increase: small. Additionally, I don't learn the API as good as if I were to type it, considering moving back.
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#3Code autocompletion. I think it works around 60% of the cases, sometimes it saves some tipping. Performance increase: small. Additionally, I don't learn the API as good as if I were to type it, considering moving back.
Same here. Purely for scaffolding it's fine. But I won't let it decide implementation details. And have noticed the "copilot pause", slowing me down.
Maybe some day it will be good enough but that day is not now.
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#4Yes, I use copilot, Claude, and sometimes Zed with the built in Claude AI tooling.
It's really useful for basic stuff, scripting, boilerplate, repetitive things, SQL. For example it's great at converting types from different languages, or generate types from API reference docs.
You gotta be careful though as it is not perfect and if you do something "not typical" it will not work well. Also sometimes it is a bit outdated, produces code with different "style", or just plain wrong stuff, so you have to tweak it a bit.
It's not going to code for you yet (unless you do very basic stuff) but it's a great tool to increase productivity. I do believe I move faster.
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#5I enjoy using the Projects feature of Claude. You have a workspace to add knowledge (file/image/text) that you are able to update and maintain throughout multiple discussions.
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#6Code autocompletion. I think it works around 60% of the cases, sometimes it saves some tipping. Performance increase: small. Additionally, I don't learn the API as good as if I were to type it, considering moving back.
I stopped using autocomplete and I don't really miss it. It was really impressive for simple repetitive stuff, but it's an active nuisance when I'm working on something more complex.
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#7Asking ChatGPT to give me boilerplate is a huge productivity win for me still. For example, I recently asked ChatGPT to give me a Terraform file that sets up API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB. The script it gave me worked after only a couple of minor tweaks. Was up and running in about 15 minutes, whereas I'm pretty sure it'd be hours if I had to dredge through the docs myself.
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#8LLMs can be revolutionary for approaching areas you do not know well ("how do you do this with this library, provide short working code").
But you need to use Retrieval Augmented Generation (or bare LLMs will either invent the nonexistent or present solutions to non-proposed problems).
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#9ChatGPT o1 preview is producing amazing results for code and generally helpful with life. It's not well integrated to many IDE tools yet (I use Cody a bit which has a wait list for o1 preview), but then I keep going back to just using the ChatGPT interface anyway because it feels cleaner to manually select and upload the relevant files attachments anyway. I'm sure that will change as integrations improve. Claude seems really popular on here but I wonder if that's just because Sonnet is free and useful enough. I prefer the results of newer ChatGPT models currently and feel they are worth paying for.
Re: Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
#10Code completion. I’m about 50/50 on whether it’s actually helpful or I just spend more time reading the completions to make sure they are correct instead of just learning and typing it out myself.