And again, the most convoluted setup for development with an example that fails to demonstrate why you should adopt such practice. It’s like doing a GDB demo with an hello world program. Or doing Linux From Scratch to show how you can browse the web.
The goal of software engineering is not to write code faster. Coding is itself a translation task (and a learning workflow, as you can’t keep everything in your head). What you want is the power of decision, and better decision can be made with better information. There’s nothing in the setup that helps with making decision.
There are roughly six steps in software engineering, done sequentially and iteratively. Requirements gathering to shape the problem, Analysis to understand it, Design to come up with a solution, Coding to implement it, Testing to verify the solution, and Maintenance to keep the solution working. We have methods and tooling that help with each, giving us relevant information based on important parameters that we need to decide upon.
LLMs are example generators. Give it a prompt and it will gives the answer that fits the conversation. It’s an echo chamber powered by a lossy version of the internet. Unlike my linting tool which will show me the error when there’s one and not when I tell it to.
ADDENDUM
It's like an ivory tower filled with yes-men and mirrors that always reply "you're the fairest of them all". My mind is already prone to lie to itself. What I need most is tooling that is not influenced by what I told it, or what others believe in. My browser is not influencing my note taking tool, telling it to note down the first two results it got from google. My editor is not telling the linter to sweep that error under a virtual rug. And QA does not care that I've implemented the most advanced abstraction if the software does not fit the specs.
The goal of software engineering is not to write code faster. Coding is itself a translation task (and a learning workflow, as you can’t keep everything in your head). What you want is the power of decision, and better decision can be made with better information. There’s nothing in the setup that helps with making decision.
There are roughly six steps in software engineering, done sequentially and iteratively. Requirements gathering to shape the problem, Analysis to understand it, Design to come up with a solution, Coding to implement it, Testing to verify the solution, and Maintenance to keep the solution working. We have methods and tooling that help with each, giving us relevant information based on important parameters that we need to decide upon.
LLMs are example generators. Give it a prompt and it will gives the answer that fits the conversation. It’s an echo chamber powered by a lossy version of the internet. Unlike my linting tool which will show me the error when there’s one and not when I tell it to.
ADDENDUM
It's like an ivory tower filled with yes-men and mirrors that always reply "you're the fairest of them all". My mind is already prone to lie to itself. What I need most is tooling that is not influenced by what I told it, or what others believe in. My browser is not influencing my note taking tool, telling it to note down the first two results it got from google. My editor is not telling the linter to sweep that error under a virtual rug. And QA does not care that I've implemented the most advanced abstraction if the software does not fit the specs.