My mold project is around 10k lines of code, still small.
But I don’t actually care about whether LLMs are good or bad or whatever. All I care is that I am am completing things that I wasn’t able to even start before. Doesn’t really matter to me if that doesn’t count for some reason.
But on bigger stuff, it bogs down and sometimes I feel like I’m going nowhere. But it gets done eventually, and I have better structured, better documented code. Not because it would be better structured and documented if I left it to its ow devices, but rather it is the best way to get performance out of LLM assistance in code.
The difference now is twofold: First, things like documentation are now -effortless-. Second, the good advice you learned about meticulously writing maintainable code no longer slows you down, now it speeds you up.
That’s so nebulous and likely just plain wrong. I have some experience with silicone molds and casting silicone and other materials. I have no idea how you’d accurately estimate it would take hundreds of hours. But the mostly likely reason you’ve had results is that you just did it.
This sounds very very much like confirmation bias. “I started drinking pine needle tea and then 5 days later my cold got better!”
I use AI, it’s useful for lots of things, but this kind of anecdote is terrible evidence.
I’m willing to believe that I’m just especially clueless and this is not a meaningful project to an expert. But hey, I’m printing plastic negatives to make silicone positives to make plaster negatives to slip cast, which is what I actually do care about.
Or you’re pretending that your pointless task AI could actually do was TOTALLY worth it. So glad that pointless ish was accomplished.
Everyone is pretending so they can try be on the money-making edge of the curve. All your stories are absolutely bullshit.