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points by jimbokun 1 day ago | 0 comments

You can always read the generated code and spruce it up or have the LLM refactor it to your liking.

Reading code in a language you do not understand is not a way to understand.

You're the one complained:

> My Emacs config file is a hodge-podge of little snippets I don't properly understand

People giving you truly time-saving advice. Use a good model to unhodge-podge it. You can even ask it to explain every single Lisp snippet it makes, to the detail and granularity level you prefer - want a big picture, please; would you like nitty-gritty details - ask no more. It's not like it's gonna build a "massive configuration" and absolutely will refuse to make it make sense to you.

[–] gspr 23 hours ago

Yes. "A hodge-podge of little snippets I don't understand" is the situation I'm in and wish to avoid. "An LLM wrote a lot more that I don't understand" will make the situation a lot worse.

There's indeed lots of good advice in this thread. I appreciate it all! "Just use an LLM for the stuff you don't understand" is, however, not one of them.

[–] iLemming 23 hours ago

You're hypothesizing of something you haven't even tried. What's the worst possible outcome? You end up with more shit you don't understand. You then just throw it away and go back to smaller amount of shit you didn't understand well to begin with.

[–] gspr 18 hours ago

"Come on just try it" is a quite weak argument.

[–] iLemming 12 hours ago

I'm sorry, but I'm out of magic scrolls to turn someone into a Lisp adept in a blink. So this time you really have to convince yourself to do something about it; I'm powerless against your lazy ass here - the curse is too strong.