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0 pointsavianlyric10mo ago0 comments

I think you’re being a little over critical of LLMs. They certainly have their issues, and most assuredly people often use them inappropriately. But it rather intellectually lazy to declare that because many people use LLMs inappropriately, that means they can’t offer real value.

I’ve personally found them extremely useful to test and experiment new ideas. Having an LLM throw together a PoC which would have taken me an hour to create, in less than 5mins, is a huge time saver. Makes it possible to iterate through many more ideas and test my understanding of systems far more efficiently than doing the same by hand.

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skydhash10mo ago

Maybe that’s alien to me because I don’t tend to build PoC, mostly using wireframes to convey ideas. Most of my coding is fully planned to get to the end. The experiment part is on a much smaller scale (module level).

avianlyricOP10mo ago

Ah my apologies. I didn’t realise you’re an individual capable of designing and building complex systems made of multiple interconnected novel modules using only wireframes, and having all that work without any prior experimentation.

For the rest of us less fortunate, LLMs can be a fantastic tool to sketch out novel modules quickly, and then test assumptions and interactions between them, before committing to a specific high level design.

skydhash10mo ago

> I didn’t realise you’re an individual capable of designing and building complex systems made of multiple interconnected novel modules using only wireframes, and having all that work without any prior experimentation.

Not really. It's just that there's a lot of prior works out there, so I don't need to do experimentation when someone has already done it and describe the lessons learned. Then you do requirement analysis and some designs (system, api, and ux), plus with the platform constraints, there aren't a lot of flexible points left. I'm not doing research on software engineering.

For a lot of projects, the objective is to get something working out there. Then I can focus on refining if needs be. I don't need to optimize every parameter with my own experiments.

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skydhash10mo ago

For a lot of projects, the objective is to get something working out there. Then I can focus on refining if needs be. I don't need to optimize every parameter with my own experiments.

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