Mixed
It still requires an exhausting amount of thought and energy to make the LLM go in the direction I want
iambateman on Hacker News
In the thread “The highest quality codebase”
Helped: On-demand tooling for tasks fitting within context window.
Got in the way: Inability to conform to existing design standards and context limits.
The point he’s making - that LLM’s aren’t ready for broadly unsupervised software development - is well made. It still requires an exhausting amount of thought and energy to make the LLM go in the direction I want, which is to say in a direction which considers the code which is outside the current context window. I suspect that we will not solve the context window problem for a long time. …