points by x3haloed 14 hours ago | 0 comments
I have a suspicion that eventually you won't have to be a developer to successfully create good software. I do think that familiarity with algorithm design will still help a lot. But ultimately, if your verification, testing, and observability regimes are good enough, the exact implementation shouldn't matter.
[–] 4b11b4 14 hours ago
I'd lean similarly, but those regimes you list aren't likely going to be done by accident.
[–] x3haloed 11 hours ago
Oh, you are 100% correct about that.
LLMs for many months have been at a level where if you know exactly what you want, you can simply let the LLM bang out an implementation and never have to read it. But outside of simple problems, you probably don't know what you exactly want.
That being said, I've had considerable success ending every prompt with "ask me for any further details that I haven't considered" or some variation thereof.