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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I agree.

    As someone who uses a number of LLMs often as a pair programmer / sounding board - they’re incredibly useful if you have a very clear idea of your goal and also a solid idea of the architectural patterns you’re going after because they’re so often flatly wrong or suggest solutions that are wildly inefficient/inappropriate for larger projects/applications.

    The more context you can provide the better it does but it still falls over often - suggesting courses of action or solutions that are completely hallucinated.

    The one thing that’s consistently true is that the better I can describe my goals the better the response tends to be.

    The best part about using them is that, for the most challenging work, I find that forcing myself to clearly explain my problem and goals in writing often leads me to a solution without ever having to submit a request.

    There’s something about trying to clearly explain the problem to someone who “doesn’t know the space” that’s been helpful to finding the solution.

    It’s odd that I had to rediscover this in such a visceral way after a previous life as a tech product person.