> - Many bugs were of a new kind (to me), the code would look like it does the right thing but actually not work at all, or just be much more broken than code with that level of "polish" would normally be.
This reminded me of a quarter million dollar software project one of my employers had contracted to a team in a different country. On the face of it - especially if you go and check by the spec sheet - everything was there but the thing was not a cohesive whole. They did not spend one second beyond the spec sheet and none of the common sense things that "follow" from the spec were there. The whole thing was scrapped immediately.
With LLMs this kind of work now basically becomes free to do and automatic.
This reminded me of a quarter million dollar software project one of my employers had contracted to a team in a different country. On the face of it - especially if you go and check by the spec sheet - everything was there but the thing was not a cohesive whole. They did not spend one second beyond the spec sheet and none of the common sense things that "follow" from the spec were there. The whole thing was scrapped immediately.
With LLMs this kind of work now basically becomes free to do and automatic.