alt Hacker News> If a person needs training, particularly if the set of high level advice I set out in a reply is rejected, a blog post isn't going to cut it anyway.
My problem with the “high level advice” is that the results it gives are bad. Sure, sometimes it gets it right, and it helps but I’d wager about half the time the results are just bad. Hence why I’m asking people to show their homework here. I think that the anthropic rust rewrite is great example - it shows yes you can do a lift and shift assuming you’re ok with those constraints.
> Some AI skeptics paradoxically insist humans are irreplaceable.
But yet in this comment thread we have people saying “just point it at your code and let it go” like [0], you saying “just follow the vague instructions and if you can’t get the results that I’m telling you you’ll get them it’s your problem. But it’s too circumstantial for me to be able to tell you how to work”
> where one set of prompts/harnesses/whatever solve all your problems forever
I don’t want forever, I just want to know what is actually working today, or this week, or this month.
>But yet in this comment thread we have people saying
I'm writing for myself, not including myself in any group of people.
>I just want to know what is actually working today,
With LLMs I have facilitated the writing of about a million SLOC over the past 9 months.
- A GitHub "clone" with many enhancements which all of my development is hosted on
- A task manager as though kanban had a baby with a FIFO stack
- (in progress) a CAD kernel potential Parasolid competitor
- reverse engineered a vehicle diagnostics tool to diagnose and fix some car problems I was having more easily
- plenty of other small, half baked, or abandoned projects for one reason or the other
LLMs amplify me, they don't do things "for" me. They are working very well for me, but I have definitely hit their limitations in many places and transitioned back to the hardest problems to solve being on the human side of the equation.
What they can do for any particular person depends on the person and if they can come around to really grokking the human-machine relationship.