ilovefood

You're right about understanding. Where we might disagree is the conclusion. I think it's possible to build the understanding without having to type out syntax by hand (debugging, writing tests, etc). Maybe we're missing much better verification tools? LLMs will likely play a big part in those too (explain the codebase, walk me through A, B, C etc)

I'm really open to feedback. I checked your past comments and you posted:

> AI is good at coding if there's an oracle. If the system is ancient, unreadable, untestable, that's exactly the opposite. It won't get the exact set of corner cases.

I sort of mention this in the article, so I'm sure we're somewhat aligned on the core. How would you have worded things?

Agreed, which is why I also believe "token usage" and similar proxy metrics aren't the right ones for what's next.

Makes sense, perhaps I'll post the raw notes + more material with the next article, prior to any edit. I like to use local models, even if they are not that powerful precisely because of that, I'm forced to put in more thought and it's my signed off article in the end.

Thank you for the suggestion.

A genuine mistake. I make these posts for myself, mainly to structure & share my thoughts. Let me know if you find other errors, I appreciate the feedback.

Yes correct, Gemma. Will correct it shortly.

You are correct, my bad. I meant to write Gemma 4. I'll update.

I can't change my name, but happy to change the hero picture :))

I've written this myself, Gemini 4 did a bit of editing:

> What follows is a cleaned-up version of notes I accumulated over the past year. Gemini 4 helped with the editing.

The image is made by an AI image generator on fal.ai. It's better I spare you all my design skills :)

Thank you very much for the kind words :)