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Insanity driven development: altering your api to accept 7 levels of "broken and different" structures so as to bend to the will of the llms

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I think you’re missing the OP’s point. They weren’t saying that the goal is to modify their APIs just to appease an LLM. It’s that they ask LLMs to guess what the API is and use that as part of their design process.

If you automatically assume that what the LLM spits out is what the API ought to be then I agree that that’s bad engineering. But if you’re using it to brainstorm what an intuitive interface would look like, that seems pretty reasonable.

Yes, that's a bonus. In fact, I've found it worthwhile to prompt it a few times to get several different guesses at how things are supposed to work. The super lazy way is to just say, "No, that's wrong," if necessary adding, "Frotzl2000 doesn't have an enqueueCallback function or even a queue."

Of course when it suggests a bad interface you shouldn't implement it.

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