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LLMs at best are a good auto-complete. I have been trying to use LLMs to code since GPT 3 came out. While Claude 3.7 has made some progress still it can't gener
by ScrexyScroo 2y ago
LLMs at best are a good auto-complete. I have been trying to use LLMs to code since GPT 3 came out. While Claude 3.7 has made some progress still it can't generate an app into existence, although it's great for boilerplate or hinting to which direction I should try to find the documentation.
- aprilthird2021 2y agoA great auto-complete, I'd say. But that's as much as I've gotten out of it too. Still a huge productivity booster
- SparkyMcUnicorn 2y agoIn the past week I created two apps within 3-5 iterations. No manual edits (other than .env). Another one I thought was pretty cool was handing it some API docs for something, then had it build a UI and admin interface from scratch. The dev agent tools these days aren't half bad, and they're getting better.
- anonzzzies 2y agoThat hasn't been true since 3.5; it can and does generate full working code and sometimes with only a few attempts. Sometimes it cannot figure it out and then you need to fix it yourself as it will just loop forever. These things can be absolutely trivial (and thus frustrating) at times, but it's also fairly magical when it just does work.
- strbean 2y agoHave you tried this tool? I just generated two tetris games, one with ascii art and one with WebGL, and I found it quite impressive. Maybe simplistic apps, but still quite impressive with it's ability to create functional games and fix bugs with minor prodding.