Mixed
I end up spending as much time as it would have taken just to write it to get through this process AND then do a meticulous line by line review
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Less than 50% of the time I end up with something that compiles
In the thread “LLM Inevitabilism”, replying to this comment
Helped: Better documentation generated to make the tool work.
Got in the way: High variance; often fails to compile; requires meticulous review.
… Despite spending hundreds of thousands of tokens while Claude desperately throws stuff against the wall trying to make it work. I end up spending as much time as it would have taken just to write it to get through this process AND then do a meticulous line by line review where I typically find quite a lot to fix. I really can't form a strong opinion about the efficiency of this whole thing. …