the practical improvement of going with LLM is that you have a bunch of thinking traces saved as a part of your iteration proces - it's really easy to get back into flow
rafaelmn on Hacker News
In the thread “The last six months in LLMs in five minutes”, replying to this comment
Helped: Saved thinking traces allow easy return to flow after interruptions.
Got in the way: Agents are stupid at running expensive builds and test suites.
… Sometimes using an LLM is theoretically slower than hand-rolling - if I just sat down and focused I could outperform the iteration and the waiting, especially considering how stupid agents are at running expensive builds/test suites (with a bunch of explicit instructions in skills/claude/agents.md). But the practical improvement of going with LLM is that you have a bunch of thinking traces saved as a part of your iteration proces - it's really easy to get back into flow. This is a huge productivity win for me given how many interruptions I have in my work day. …