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The time it takes you to review the code the LLM produces is the same amount of time it would take to just write the code yourself. There's no speedup to be had
by bigstrat2003 5d ago
The time it takes you to review the code the LLM produces is the same amount of time it would take to just write the code yourself. There's no speedup to be had using these things, despite what many claim.
- sfn42 5d agoStrongly disagree. I know my codebase well, I know what I'm expecting before I ask Claude to do it, and I tell it what I'm expecting. I might tell it roughly what I want, have it make a plan, review the plan and ask for changes if necessary, then execute. This way I don't need to scrutinize every detail, I just look over the big picture. I also care a lot more about the big picture - architecture and data flow etc. Basically if you view your codebase as a tree I care much more about the trunk and the big branches than I do about the smaller branches and particularly the leaves. So the details of some little leaf function somewhere are fairly insignificant, it's trivial to change at any time. As long as it works and isn't unreasonably slow it's fine. Working this way I can get things done in minutes or hours that would previously take days or even weeks.
- abalashov 5d ago> I know my codebase well I'll bet you know it because you wrote and/or worked on it manually, likely over a period of years. The odds of you knowing a slop codebase that well, or even particularly at all, are much lower.