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Is it really 5x? I'm more surprised about 25+ years of experience, and being hard pressed to learn enough python to code the project. It's not like he's learning programming again, or being recently exposed to OOP. Especially when you can find working code samples about the subproblems in the project.

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atemerev 16 hours ago | parent [-]

It is 5x if you are already a senior SE knowing your programming language really well, constantly suggesting good architecture yourself ("seed files" is a brilliant idea), and not accepting any slop / asking to rewrite things if something is not up to your standards (of course, every piece of code should be reviewed).

Otherwise, it can be 0.2x in some cases. And you should not use LLMs for anything security-related unless you are a security expert, otherwise you are screwed.

(this is SOTA as of April 2025, I expect things to become better in the near future)

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skydhash 9 hours ago | parent [-]

> It is 5x if you are already a senior SE knowing your programming language really well, constantly suggesting good architecture yourself ("seed files" is a brilliant idea), and not accepting any slop / asking to rewrite things if something is not up to your standards (of course, every piece of code should be reviewed).

If you know the programming language really well, that usually means you know what libraries are useful, memorized common patterns, and have some project samples laying out. The actual speed improvement would be on typing the code, but it's usually the activity that requires the least time on any successful project. And unless you're a slow typist, I can't see 5x there.

If you're lacking in fundamental, then it's just a skill issue, and I'd be suspicious of the result.

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atemerev 5 hours ago | parent [-]

"Given this code, extract all entities and create the database schema from these", "write documentation for these methods", "write test examples", "write README.md explaining how to use scripts in this directory", "refactor everything in this directory just like this example", etc etc

Everything boring can be automated and it takes five seconds compared to half an hour.

	▲	skydhash 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It can only be automated if the only thing you care about is having the code/text, and not making sure they are correct. > Given this code, extract all entities and create the database schema from these Sometimes, the best representation for storing and loading data is not the best for manipulating it and vice-versa. Directly mapping code entities to database relations (assuming it's SQL) is a sure way to land yourself in trouble later. > write documentation for these methods The intent of documentation is to explain how to use something and the multiple why's behind an implementation. What is there can be done using a symbol explorer. Repeating what is obvious from the name of the function is not helpful. And hallucinating something that is not there is harmful. > write test examples Again the type of tests matters more than the amount. So unless you're sure that the test is correct and the test suite really ensure that the code is viable, it's all for naught. ... Your use cases assume that the output is correct. And as the hallucination risk from LLM models is non-zero, such assumption is harmful.