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In theory - if an LLM could handle infinite complexity, I still think that the business issues + decisions end up getting in the way somewhere.

AI: "You asked to add feature X. Here are 25 questions that impact feature Z, B, and C in your gigantic codebase"

Developer: I can answer 8 of these questions... Guess I need to go figure out the rest of them.

Writing the code + building the functionality has always been the easy part.

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Yeah, exactly my experience. Especially ever since Fable came out, I felt paralysed, many times, about how many decisions I have to hand it. Which is 10x harder when you handed it the reins to build the PR and you practically only knew the compressed initial problem statement. Then it stands up a draft PR and says: "Decisions you owe me: [insert bulleted list with 8 items each a paragraph long]" and you are like: "...oh shit".

It becomes a very heavy and difficult exercise of it walking you through the implementation and the judgment calls it had to make along the way. VERY exhausting.

There's a silver lining though: you do get to gradually clarify a proto project spec and various requirements, but boy does it take time and energy to re-contextualise when the bot tells you that you should make decisions.

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