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Simon, all these example are great and on a side note I've learned a lot through your writing. However, as so many other AI for low/no code examples, it starts
by almog 2y ago
Simon, all these example are great and on a side note I've learned a lot through your writing. However, as so many other AI for low/no code examples, it starts feeling like trying to perform a dexterity intensive task such as knotting while wearing thick gloves. All these examples are great on their own. What to me feels so wrong about seeing so many of these on HN front page is that my experience has been that even after almost 2 years from when ChatGPT was initially introduced, all models that I've been using improved a lot in accuracy, speed, input/output size but still more often than not fail to be useful when used with even a small _existing_ code base and an evolving set of tasks that aren't the busy work / boiler plate type.
- simonw 2y agoI'm working on a longer piece of writing about this, but I think a lot of this comes down to the fact that my personal style of developing code is extremely compatible with LLMs. I have hundreds of projects which are small single page HTML apps, single purpose command line, utilities or plugins for my larger projects. All of these are short enough to fit into the context window of an LLM. If all I worked on were 1-2 hundred thousand or million line applications I would get significantly less value out of LLMs.