Are you just generating code with the LLM? Ya, you are screwed. Are you generating documentation and tests and everything else to help to code live? Your options for maintenance go up. Now just replace “generate” with “maintain” and you are basically asking AI to make changes to a description at the top that then percolate to multiple artifacts being updated, only one happening to be the code itself, and the code updates multiple time as the AI checks tests and stuff.

I wish there were good guides on how to get the best out of LLMs. All of these tips about adding documentation etc seem very useful but I’ve never seen good guides on how to do this effectively or sustainably.