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By hand or with AI? Fascinating. So much work! What was your motivation for this?
by keepamovin 1y ago
By hand or with AI? Fascinating. So much work! What was your motivation for this?
- xandrius 1y agoIrrelevant to me. People would never ask whether someone has created something looking at SO or not. If the thing works as advertised, good for them!
- lyxell 1y agoTo some people the process leading to a finished project is the most interesting thing about posts like these.
- johnisgood 1y agoLLMs can explain the process, and you can build projects with LLMs explaining the process.
- shortrounddev2 1y agoLLM output is simply not interesting
- johnisgood 1y agoI did not say that you should copy paste its output verbatim. I thought this was obvious. Additionally, "interesting" is highly subjective. It could be technically correct, yet uninteresting.
- nticompass 1y agoLLMs can attempt to explain the code, but it can't explain people's thought process and that's the interesting part. I want to hear about the reverse engineering, how you thought the code through. LLMs are boring.
- johnisgood 1y agoThey can, if you write down your thought process, which is probably what you should do when you are using an LLM to create a product, but what do I know.
- Ghoelian 1y ago> They can, if you write down your thought process Just write a blogpost at that point.
- johnisgood 1y agoYou do not have to be as accurate or that specific, you do not have to worry about the way you word or organize things, the LLM can figure it out, as opposed to a blog post. So "To some people the process leading to a finished project is the most interesting thing about posts like these." is bullshit, that is said by someone who has never used LLM properly. You can achieve it with LLMs. You definitely can, I know, I did, accurately (I double checked). I will throw it out here, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063 (My AI skeptic friends are all nuts)
- ryan93 1y agoThat is not true
- johnisgood 1y agoHow come? You had different experiences? Which LLMs, what prompts? Give me all the details that supports your claim that it is not true. My experiences completely differ from yours, so the way I use it, it is very much true. That said, it is probably pointless to argue with full-blown AI-skeptics. People had lots of great and productive-enhancing experiences with LLMs, you did not, great, that does not reflect the tool, it reflects your way of using the tool. I will just throw it out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063 (My AI skeptic friends are all nuts)
- zerr 1y agoIt's not about explaining the process but experiencing it.
- johnisgood 1y agoWell, they can experience it if they wish to. Sadly most vibe-coders do not.
- neocanable 1y ago90% by hand, 10% AI. I do this for fun and to learn about jvm.
- jebarker 1y agoI think that sort of ratio is the sweet spot for learning. I've been writing an 8086 simulator in C++ and using an LLM for answering specific technical questions I come up with has drastically sped up my progress without it actually doing the work for me.
- keepamovin 1y agoWow, impressive. A project of the scale and depth.
- Bjartr 1y agoA great question to ask. We're in the middle of learning where AI can and can't be effective. Knowing where and how it's being used is quite useful.