Needing focus to think is not the same as needing focus to write code..
It can take a whole day to find 10 good lines to write.
Needing focus to think is not the same as needing focus to write code..
It can take a whole day to find 10 good lines to write.
> It can take a whole day to find 10 good lines to write.
So we've come full circle to code writing speed being a factor again? :)
In all seriousness, this just feels like a never-ending list of attempts to try to resist any notion that LLMs might accelerate software development, however small the increment. The original article was arguing that organizational and collaboration was the bottleneck and that taking a whole day to think about the code was not.
And sometimes an LLM can find those 10 lines in 10 minutes. Or it can find a 100 and you cut them down to 10 in two hours total. Yes I've seen this in practice. The amount of code an LLM can tirelessly ingest is super human.
Twenty minutes ago Claude digested about a dozen pipeline definitions, a sequence of build files and targets, read the scripts they use, found the variable that I could reuse for my purposes, and made the appropriate change in the right (looking) place, so that I'd be able to achieve my goals.
I could not have done this nearly as quickly. On the other hand, I gave it clear, precise instructions.
Most of the time it can’t it can write 1000s, but its not good in finding the best 10s.