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> I developed an financial servic application with 1MB+ source of code (not including 3rd party libs) within 3 month - thats more than 1 million keystrokes that

by arp242 2y ago

> I developed an financial servic application with 1MB+ source of code (not including 3rd party libs) within 3 month - thats more than 1 million keystrokes that created a system that works perfectly fine and produces exactly the results as specified How do you know it "works fine"? How do you know there aren't tons of caveats as soon as some boundary conditions are exceeded? Certainly not because you actually understand it all. Just yesterday we had "Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers".[1] I sure hope it's just for your personal use because it would be completely irresponsible otherwise, to the point of criminal neglect. This is a Knightmare[2] waiting to happen and I can only hope it will only your own money that's effected and that you won't ruin anyone's lives with this. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42269227 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42269227 [2]: https://dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-devops-cautionary-tale/ https://dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-devops-caution...

ta12653421 2y ago
Interesting why i get downvoted for appraising LLM and clapping-up that it grows my productivity? Very interesting... Good one: I read the article about this Fintech yesterday as well :) To your questions: It works because it can see it? (For sure, every software has some bugs which may be never enconutered, but in this case its a fairly simple application, doint exactly 4 functions for me) The link to the Knight story, thanks for pointing out on that, interesting read! Well, they are some magnitudes above what we are doing here with our own trading infrastructure, apart from that: we are using our own money on our own risk.
- ptero 2y ago
  You are almost certainly downvoted primarly for the tone, not content. "For all the tech people" is very likely to bring downvotes. If you wrote it as a personal data point it would be fine. Also, advocating for a general availability fintech app with 1MB of llm-generated code makes me shudder. I want my finances (x-rays, car software, etc.) to not be done that way. If you had been clear that you made your own trading infra for your own money -- good luck! I have zero problems with this. My 2c.
  - ta12653421 2y ago
    Well, with "all tech people" i actually meant ">everyone working in tech (or like the HN community<", and i was serious about that: I havent met one person in the business on the tech side who didnt profit from it? Hm, because of which wording do you imply "general availability"? Interesting take! :)

by arp242 2y ago

ta12653421 2y ago

Interesting why i get downvoted for appraising LLM and clapping-up that it grows my productivity? Very interesting... Good one: I read the article about this Fintech yesterday as well :) To your questions: It works because it can see it? (For sure, every software has some bugs which may be never enconutered, but in this case its a fairly simple application, doint exactly 4 functions for me) The link to the Knight story, thanks for pointing out on that, interesting read! Well, they are some magnitudes above what we are doing here with our own trading infrastructure, apart from that: we are using our own money on our own risk.

ptero 2y ago
You are almost certainly downvoted primarly for the tone, not content. "For all the tech people" is very likely to bring downvotes. If you wrote it as a personal data point it would be fine. Also, advocating for a general availability fintech app with 1MB of llm-generated code makes me shudder. I want my finances (x-rays, car software, etc.) to not be done that way. If you had been clear that you made your own trading infra for your own money -- good luck! I have zero problems with this. My 2c.
- ta12653421 2y ago
  Well, with "all tech people" i actually meant ">everyone working in tech (or like the HN community<", and i was serious about that: I havent met one person in the business on the tech side who didnt profit from it? Hm, because of which wording do you imply "general availability"? Interesting take! :)