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You can also remove features with AI faster than before. During the initial development phase, that's the most important part IMO

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Really? I find LLMs quite bad at deleting code. If you ask them to add a feature, then later take it out again, the codebase still grows. It always grows. Every time I've tried it, llms have failed to simplify code via refactoring. Even fable is incredibly bad at this for some reason.

LLMs are excellent at making prototypes though. And prototypes can be an excellent way to stop yourself from implementing the wrong features in the first place.

> the codebase still grows. It always grows.

Well, yes. I mean, it's in the name Generative Pre-trained Transformer: they're text generators!

To delete text using a text generator, you have to emit the original thing taking care to omit the deleted stuff during emission. It's more work.

We need ChatDPT

> The `rm` command was released on November 3, 1971, as part of the First Edition of Unix (Unix) by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie

We've had that since 1971

> To delete text using a text generator, you have to emit the original thing taking care to omit the deleted stuff during emission. It's more work.

What are you talking about?

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