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Don’t agree with the assessment. At this point most of what I find LLM taking over is all the repetitive crud like implementations. I am still doing what I cons

Don’t agree with the assessment. At this point most of what I find LLM taking over is all the repetitive crud like implementations. I am still doing what I consider the fun parts, architecting the project and solving what are still the hard parts for the LLM, the non crud parts. This could be gone in a year and maybe I become a glorified product manager but enjoying it for the time being l, I can focus on the real thought problems and get help lifting the crud or repetitive patterns.

voidUpdate 1y ago
If you keep asking an LLM to generate the same repetitive implementations, why not just have a basic project already set up that you can modify as needed?
- bluefirebrand 1y ago
  Yeah, I don't really get this Most boilerplate I write has a template that I can copy and paste then run a couple of "find and replace" on and get going right away This is not a substantial blocker or time investment that an AI can save me imo
  - infecto 1y ago
    YMMV. No boilerplate is exactly the same, there is usually some level of business logic or customization. With current gen I can point to a couple different files, maybe db models, and write a quick spec in 30 seconds and let it run in the background implementing the backend routes I want. I can do other valuable things in parallel, I can also point it to my FE to implement the api calls to the BE. It’s for me much quicker than a template which I am still customizing. Is it a substantial blocker? Nope, but it’s like I outsourced all the boilerplate by writing a sentence or two.
  - sanderjd 1y ago
    It is though, because it can do a pretty good job of every template. I remember what I revelation it was a million years ago or so when rails came along with its "scaffold". That was a huge productivity boost. But it just did one specific thing, crud MVC. Now we have a pretty decent "scaffold" capability, but not just for crud MVC, but for anything you can describe or point to examples of.
- infecto 1y ago
  The LLM is doing the modifications and specific nuance that I want. Saves me time, ymmv.
- sanderjd 1y ago
  Because they are similar and repetitive, but not identical.

voidUpdate 1y ago

If you keep asking an LLM to generate the same repetitive implementations, why not just have a basic project already set up that you can modify as needed?

bluefirebrand 1y ago
Yeah, I don't really get this Most boilerplate I write has a template that I can copy and paste then run a couple of "find and replace" on and get going right away This is not a substantial blocker or time investment that an AI can save me imo
- infecto 1y ago
  YMMV. No boilerplate is exactly the same, there is usually some level of business logic or customization. With current gen I can point to a couple different files, maybe db models, and write a quick spec in 30 seconds and let it run in the background implementing the backend routes I want. I can do other valuable things in parallel, I can also point it to my FE to implement the api calls to the BE. It’s for me much quicker than a template which I am still customizing. Is it a substantial blocker? Nope, but it’s like I outsourced all the boilerplate by writing a sentence or two.
- sanderjd 1y ago
  It is though, because it can do a pretty good job of every template. I remember what I revelation it was a million years ago or so when rails came along with its "scaffold". That was a huge productivity boost. But it just did one specific thing, crud MVC. Now we have a pretty decent "scaffold" capability, but not just for crud MVC, but for anything you can describe or point to examples of.
infecto 1y ago
The LLM is doing the modifications and specific nuance that I want. Saves me time, ymmv.
sanderjd 1y ago
Because they are similar and repetitive, but not identical.