thomas_moon

The whole point of my post is that you get to pick and choose what parts this magical software automates for you. Based on your response, it's an imagination issue for you.

The only viewpoint I really agree with in this article is the "use it or lose it" mentality. Skills are developed and maintained by practicing them, but if all the author really wants to do is write code, then LLMs are literally an answer to their prayers!

You can enable virtually free test driven development. Write the test names down and let the LLM implement them for you. You save 50% of your time and you get to go to town on implementation and or optimizations.

You can have the LLM take the non-tech-counterparts description of a bug and have it point you at precise lines of code to investigate rather than grepping around a codebase you might not know well.

You can onboard to new languages, frameworks, repositories extremely fast by having a partner (the LLM) explain implementation patterns and approaches on demand! You don't even need to talk to another human being! Get your questions answered in seconds and start coding!

You can rapidly prototype. You can get immediate code reviews. You can rubber duck. You can visualize business/logic flows and code branching to better understand existing implementations. You can even have the LLM write an implementation plan for you then write the code yourself!

If you cant find a way to write more code with LLMs, its either an imagination or skill issue.

Going to reply to my own post with a disclaimer: Go with HTML instead. As soon as you even try to position photos, you need HTML and CSS haha. Mine was a bit too simple but I was optimizing for absolute lowest friction possible to writing & publishing.

I find this post a bit misleading. It seems like he didn't build a blog. He built a website with real requirements, then added a blog to it.

The title* feels a bit rage baity to be honest.

TLDR: You use HTML and CSS.

I set out to make a blog in the simplest form possible a few weeks ago. Today I wanted to add some formatting when including photos in posts. It turns out I made some bad calls already when I set things up optimizing other areas like process and publishing.

Maybe someone out there will find this as funny as I did while I was writing it.

I got the idea of live streaming from this community. It takes $0 and about 90-100 minutes to start from 0. If its something you have thought about doing hopefully this helps you.

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Thats true. Along with the fact likely no one will be reading it unless I post it somewhere myself anyways, maybe the Private/Public setup was overkill haha.

I don't know who this will be helpful for, but I am trying to get out of my comfort zone and do things more in public. This is a first step.

Thanks

Thank you for this post! I have been searching for something that goes a bit deeper than most medium blog posts. I was surprised at how much of the React tidbits I have picked up through trial and error but couldn't quite articulate. It's super helpful to have it thoroughly explained all in one spot!

At work we are currently exploring/POCing a migration to RTK to manage state and redux. Something we were planning on doing is converting completely to hooks. This post probably saved us some headache and made me realize that might not be the right move.