bcrosby95

My experience with prototyping games is that you need very strong human driven guidance and review in the beginning, then you can increasingly take your hands off the wheel.

If you take it off too early you end up with shit and will spend weeks fixing all these baked bad assumptions your project is built on top of. I spent weeks fixing some of this shit then the LLM revived a not insignificant portion of it in a later change because it got "confused" (its words) because some of the comments it previously made were left around.

People aren't pretending, they just like the word.

How many police have visited flock executives to ask them why they're doing what they're doing?

The problem with hand review I always had was trying to teach the other person. You don't want to present them with an avalanche of problems. So you pick the most important 5. Over time this iterates and you build someone good at what they do.

The good part of LLMs is you don't have to worry about overloading them: you can just outline every problem with the code they produce.

The bad part of LLMs is they don't really "get better" at this stuff. I'm not training a human, and there's a limited amount LLMs can learn. So the training phase never really ends - it's Eternal September.

There's also the problem of this ultimately being my code. It isn't Claude's - Claude isn't a person.

I still read the code. I use LLMs to review it. But I also review it myself. Ultimately its faster than before, and probably better quality (because I can just give all the problems to the LLM), but slower than people doing zero review.

I mostly use it to review and tweak the changes LLMs make. However it feels like a pretty weak use case for the price involved.

How do you define good/bad? People mostly seem to talk about wait time for socialized health care, but where we live in US there's plenty of specialists that you gotta book months ahead of time. When my mom needed a pacemaker it was a 4 month process. My wife's OBGYN is booked a year out - god help you if you miss an appointment. Anyone working in pediatrics look like zombies.

Urgent care clinics have been big in our region. The primary system is obviously overloaded, and 2 of these have popped up in the last 3 years. It's more expensive per visit than our primary physician, but cheaper than an ER visit, which could easily take half a day anyways.

City of Stairs

This ties into my experience: greenfield projects turn bad way faster than legacy ones, because AI has no established patterns to key off and it does increasingly dumb shit.

This is why it's good to not keep your prototype a pile of shit as it grows to 5k, 10k, 50k, 100k lines of code.