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> If I want to create a React app with X amount of pages, some Redux stores, Auth, etc. then it can smash that out in minutes. I can say "now add X" and it'll d

by gedy 1y ago

> If I want to create a React app with X amount of pages, some Redux stores, Auth, etc. then it can smash that out in minutes. I can say "now add X" and it'll do it. Generally with good results. Not discounting your experience, but a lot of these examples are about frameworks that never had good bootstrapping, such as Rails does/did. LLMs are really good at boilerplate, but maybe this points to these such stacks needing too much fiddling to get going, vs 10x coder AI.

Jensson 1y ago
You can get similar results by downloading a boilerplate template project for that though. LLM makes that a bit easier and faster to do, but is also a bit more error prone than a template project.
- cowsandmilk 1y ago
  I’m not sure that LLM makes it easier to do. Pain points I’ve seen: 1. You have to remember all the technologies you need included, my company template already has them. 2. LLM doesn’t have a standardized directory structure, so you end up with different projects having different structures and file naming conventions. This makes later refactoring or upgrades across multiple projects less automatable (sometimes this can be solved by having an LLM do those, but they often are unsuccessful in some projects still) 3. LLMs have a knowledge cutoff. If your company has already moved to a version after that knowledge cutoff, you need to upgrade the LLM generated code. I very much prefer having a company template to asking an LLM to generate the initial project.
  - gedy 1y ago
    I agree, initial comment was basically that, and seeing a lot of folks (especially those with debatable technical skills) being very impressed with LLMs for boilerplate generation, e.g. "I build a WHOLE APP", etc.
    - skydhash 1y ago
      Maybe they haven't use the wizard in IDEs like Intellij and Visual Studio. You can boostrap things so quickly that you don't even think about it, just like creating a new file in the editor.

by gedy 1y ago

Jensson 1y ago

You can get similar results by downloading a boilerplate template project for that though. LLM makes that a bit easier and faster to do, but is also a bit more error prone than a template project.

cowsandmilk 1y ago
I’m not sure that LLM makes it easier to do. Pain points I’ve seen: 1. You have to remember all the technologies you need included, my company template already has them. 2. LLM doesn’t have a standardized directory structure, so you end up with different projects having different structures and file naming conventions. This makes later refactoring or upgrades across multiple projects less automatable (sometimes this can be solved by having an LLM do those, but they often are unsuccessful in some projects still) 3. LLMs have a knowledge cutoff. If your company has already moved to a version after that knowledge cutoff, you need to upgrade the LLM generated code. I very much prefer having a company template to asking an LLM to generate the initial project.
- gedy 1y ago
  I agree, initial comment was basically that, and seeing a lot of folks (especially those with debatable technical skills) being very impressed with LLMs for boilerplate generation, e.g. "I build a WHOLE APP", etc.
  - skydhash 1y ago
    Maybe they haven't use the wizard in IDEs like Intellij and Visual Studio. You can boostrap things so quickly that you don't even think about it, just like creating a new file in the editor.