But left unconstrained, it will just pile more and more garbage on the pile
MattRogish on Hacker News
In the thread “AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making”, replying to this comment
Helped: Rigorous spec/plan workflow and critical review by separate AI.
Got in the way: Unconstrained generation ignoring specs and codebase conventions.
… For the last several years (since GPT 4o) I have written several apps in use by people, making money, entirely with AI/LLMs (me neither writing nor reviewing the code in any meaningful fashion - other than high level architecture, schemas, etc.) and - yes, in a few hours it can do things that would take a normal human weeks (if ever!). But left unconstrained, it will just pile more and more garbage on the pile. Fable MAX is the thing that gets me much closer to "just send emails" but even then it doesn't look in my specs directory for the spec, it just goes off and does a Jurassic Park-style "It's a Ruby-on-Rails system! …