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> ... Still saves a lot of time vs typing everything from scratch ... how ? the prompts have still to be typed right ? and then the output examined in earnest.
by signa11 1y ago
> ... Still saves a lot of time vs typing everything from scratch ...
how ? the prompts have still to be typed right ? and then the output examined in earnest.
- fastball 1y agoA prompt can be as little as a sentence to write hundreds of lines of code.
- shaky-carrousel 1y agoHundreds of lines that you have to carefully read and understand.
- victorbjorklund 1y agoDepends on what it is doing. A html template without JS? Enough to just check if it looks right and works.
- ImPostingOnHN 1y agoYou also have to do that with code you write without LLM assistance.
- fastball 1y agoAre you not doing that already? I go line-by-line through the code that I wrote (in my git client) before I stage+commit it.
- shaky-carrousel 1y agoYes, but you know the kind of code you write. When you re-check it, you are looking for minor typos, no major logic flaws affecting half the committed code.
- nipah 1y agoYou read at the same speed line-by-line your code when you are in your git client? You are doing something wrong. I go line-by-line through my code like 7x faster than I would do it for someone's else code, because I know what I wrote, my own intentions, my flow of coding and all of those details. I can just look at it en passant, while with AI code I need to carefully review every single detail and the connection between them to approve it.
- fragmede 1y agonot if you don't want to. speech to text is pretty good these days, and even eg aider has a /voice command thanks to OpenAI's whisper.
- victorbjorklund 1y agoLatest project I been working on. Prompts are a few sentences (and technically I dictate them instead of typing) and the LLM generates a few hundred lines of code.