alt Hacker News> basically no "specs" - just giving it coherent sane direction
This is one variable I almost always see in this discussion: the more strict the rules that you give the LLM, the more likely it is to deeply disappoint you
The earlier in the process you use it (ie: scaffolding) the more mileage you will get out of it
It's about accepting fallability and working with it, rather than trying to polish it away with care
To me this still feels like it would be a net negative. I can scaffold most any project with a language/stack specific CLI command or even just checking out a repo.
And sure, AI could “scaffold” further into controllers and views and maybe even some models, and they probably work ok. It’s then when they don’t, or when I need something tweaked, that the worry becomes “do I really understand what’s going on under the hood? Is the time to understand that worth it? Am I going to run across a small thread that I end up pulling until my 80% done sweater is 95% loose yarn?”
To me the trade-off hasn’t proven worth it yet. Maybe for a personal pet project, and even then I don’t like the idea of letting something else undeterministically touch my system. “But use a VM!” they say, but that’s more overhead than I care for. Just researching the safest way to bootstrap this feels like more effort than value to me.
Lastly, I think that a big part of why I like programming is that I like the act of writing code, understanding how it works, and building something I _know_.