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Nice strawman[0], but you avoided answering my core question: Speed of what? With ad hominems and a non sequitur. How about I narrow the question with the h

Nice strawman[0], but you avoided answering my core question: Speed of what? With ad hominems and a non sequitur. How about I narrow the question with the hope it engenders a relevant response: How do LLMs increase the speed of a person understanding what needs to be done? 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

CookieCrisp 3mo ago
This argument feels like A: The sky is blue! B: No it's not. A: Yes, it is, please look up. B: No, you must prove it to me through reason. A: But, if you would just pretty please look up. B: No. I run a company, I've been running it for 10 years, we do alright. I'm a shitty manager. Every time I've hired developers, the business freezes. The business isn't anything super important, the main consequence of bugs is that my family loses money. Everything has always rested on my shoulders. In theory there is some path for me to become a good manager, but I never landed on it. But now, with Claude, it's great. So far Claude has paid itself off in real profits at least 20x over, and that's with significant API usage on top of the monthly sub. I can prototype new features in an afternoon that before were on my giant list of "maybe somedays if I ever get to breathe" list. Our user experience has improved in so many ways that I knew were probably worth it, if I could just find the time. Now I can. There are situations where yeah, it probably isn't ready yet. But, there are so many where it's amazing. Seriously, it's worth looking up.
- dgellow 3mo ago
  You’re just plain wrong to assume people against agentic development do not have experience with the technology
  - CookieCrisp 3mo ago
    I think there are many valid reasons to be against them - I think a lot of them are more right than wrong. It’s the “It can’t really do much” that I think must be from people that haven’t really tried it.
- AdieuToLogic 3mo ago
  This is a great case for the benefits of using GenAI, in that you already possess an understanding of what you want to achieve. You know what it is you want to prototype, what is on your "giant list of 'maybe somedays if I ever get to breathe' list", what you want to end up delivering. My point is and remains: A) GenAI did not give you this understanding. B) GenAI can only assist in your expressing this preexisting understanding. C) GenAI is a statistical token (text) generator and cannot, by definition, "make" a person understand what they want/need to do.
  - CookieCrisp 3mo ago
    Ideas and functionality beget more ideas and functionality

CookieCrisp 3mo ago

This argument feels like A: The sky is blue! B: No it's not. A: Yes, it is, please look up. B: No, you must prove it to me through reason. A: But, if you would just pretty please look up. B: No. I run a company, I've been running it for 10 years, we do alright. I'm a shitty manager. Every time I've hired developers, the business freezes. The business isn't anything super important, the main consequence of bugs is that my family loses money. Everything has always rested on my shoulders. In theory there is some path for me to become a good manager, but I never landed on it. But now, with Claude, it's great. So far Claude has paid itself off in real profits at least 20x over, and that's with significant API usage on top of the monthly sub. I can prototype new features in an afternoon that before were on my giant list of "maybe somedays if I ever get to breathe" list. Our user experience has improved in so many ways that I knew were probably worth it, if I could just find the time. Now I can. There are situations where yeah, it probably isn't ready yet. But, there are so many where it's amazing. Seriously, it's worth looking up.

dgellow 3mo ago
You’re just plain wrong to assume people against agentic development do not have experience with the technology
- CookieCrisp 3mo ago
  I think there are many valid reasons to be against them - I think a lot of them are more right than wrong. It’s the “It can’t really do much” that I think must be from people that haven’t really tried it.
AdieuToLogic 3mo ago
This is a great case for the benefits of using GenAI, in that you already possess an understanding of what you want to achieve. You know what it is you want to prototype, what is on your "giant list of 'maybe somedays if I ever get to breathe' list", what you want to end up delivering. My point is and remains: A) GenAI did not give you this understanding. B) GenAI can only assist in your expressing this preexisting understanding. C) GenAI is a statistical token (text) generator and cannot, by definition, "make" a person understand what they want/need to do.
- CookieCrisp 3mo ago
  Ideas and functionality beget more ideas and functionality