The LLM thus gets done in 3 days what would take me 3 weeks (or more) to do by hand
mordymoop on Hacker News
3 days what would take me 3 weeks
In the thread “I trusted an LLM, now I'm on day 4 of an afternoon project”, replying to this comment
Helped: Clearly defined, deterministic behavior and straightforward testing.
… This would be a pain in the ass time consuming task but is a breeze with LLMs because the exact behavior I want is clearly defined and relatively deterministic, and it’s also straightforward to test that I’m getting what I intend. The LLM thus gets done in 3 days what would take me 3 weeks (or more) to do by hand. If the complaint is that it can’t do X, where X is something that would clearly require full AGI and likely true superintelligence — in this case expecting instantaneous, correct code that solves novel problems on the first try - then I have to insist that people are actually expecting Claude to be a Culture Ship Mind, implicitly. …