blinkbat

Terrible slop copy.

LLMs

Bit vague innit

The art of https

Lol

Writing is the slowest part

at the risk of sounding dismissive, fuck this lame shit

Tests and community are far better indicators

yes, you get better _at programming_, specifically your own programs, and in a general sense. but is there a way to hone the reading of code that is not yours?

> Now we are using LLMs to write the code to the point where we need to assign ourselves homework to keep our skills?

yes!

> Why not just use the LLM in a way that doesn't prevent us from absorbing the knowledge?

the economic viability of this is unproven in our new future.

typing speed was never my strong suit, I also was heavily into readable formatting which I often did by hand in a mixed team. so I'm not one of these stays-in-vim people that can pop out reams of code. in this way I appreciate the manual lift an LLM gives me.

I will never be able to type out a large feature at even 1/100th of the speed of today's frontier LLMs -- even if I literally had a complete plan of every line of syntax I'd use.

now, the correctness of said feature is still up for debate, but we cannot argue that the thing came into existence faster than human hands could have wrought.

panning is choppy, I would expect to be able to arrow or wasd pan as well.

I mean, if the AI can improve your program's speed by 2-3x, and you want people to use the program happily, you should probably run it past that AI at SOME point.

maybe it can teach you, if you do it methodically, how such speedups are possible for you to handmake in the future.

there's a real disconnect between "I liked making this" (which is great!) and "my users would be happier if this were faster". the users, sadly, do not care how much you liked writing the code if that code is their bottleneck.

I do extremely regular audits

Yep seems like we could wrap that up in a day

If you find it useful someone else might.

Wow a good post I agree with almost entirely.

can we get the version with a lot of the slop refined out?

the guarantee that people on the internet could be trusted to leave sound, safe comments would persuade me to add one, but that'll never be

I assume yes they would have to verify it somehow...

what could go wrong

I make games if that counts.

Mysterious HN Post

it's allowed me to do a bit more polish in places where i would not have time usually. it's also fucked up royally in various ways which eat my time. all in all it's like a slight net benefit, maybe 20 - 30%. nothing insane -- in terms of business stuff.

in terms of projects, it's really fun to be able to iterate on a basic game engine in a matter of hours, sometimes minutes, and not days.

quit

modern life doesn't have to be this miserable, universally. yet here we are

only the fully-conscious Four Seasons Orlando baby.

Only if you're satisfied with a completely ai generated product. I have never been, yet.

There are four demos. :/

Some combination of ego or loss of self seems to make people totally unable to admit that an llm can produce code as good as (i would say better) than them.