alt Hacker NewsI recently spent a couple of hours reducing 1k lines of code produced by an LLM to about 100. Purely extrapolation, but imagine what if your project was 50k instead of 500k?
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hologramofham • today at 12:56 PM
You want to reduce lines of code? Next you'll be trying to reduce the number of PRs, then what will you use for productivity metrics?
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grim_io • today at 12:17 PM
That's a bit silly to assume the LLM will 10x all of the code.
It doesn't happen often to me. If it does, I find it often handles extra edge cases I only would have found by using the customer as a guinea pig.
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If we scale that effort up from 1k lines to 500k, I'd be spending a few thousand hours optimizing the implementation.
Even if I ended up with a project of 50k lines, that would take multiple times the effort it took me to get this app ready for the initial release.
Realistically, I wouldn't have finished the project at all.