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LLM inference hasn't been too useful for me for writing code, but it has proven very useful for explaining my coworkers' code to me
ttkciar on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: What's Your Useful Local LLM Stack?”
Helped: Explaining existing Python scripts and libraries in a repository.
Got in the way: Writing code; some files needed other source files to understand.
Senior software engineer with 46 years of experience (since I was 7). LLM inference hasn't been too useful for me for writing code, but it has proven very useful for explaining my coworkers' code to me. Recently I had Gemma3-27B-it explain every Python script and library in a repo with the command: …