This prototyping and “good enough” development has been massively impactful in my small org
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Helped: Prototyping features, refactoring tech debt, and testing edge cases.
Got in the way: Frequently does stupid things that waste time.
… I’ve used LLM to prototype these features rapidly and tear down the barrier to entry on a lot of simple problems that are historically too big to be a single-dev item, and clear out the backlog of “nice to haves” that compete with the real meat and bread of my business. This prototyping and “good enough” development has been massively impactful in my small org, where the hard problems come from complex interactions between distributed systems, monitoring across services, and lots of low-level machine traffic. LLM’s let me solve easy problems and spend my most productive hours working with people to break down the hard problems into easy problems that I can solve later or pass off to someone on my team to help. …