I keep reading these pro LLM articles. And I keep thinking that it is abysmal. Sure, for now it works, because there are senior engineers that refine the rough edges and know what's going on.

And especially some folks keep claiming that one just needs to get better at prompting and describe a detailed spec.

Wanna know what a detailed spec is called? An unambiguous one? It's called code.

LLMs still feel like a very round-about way of re-inventing code. But instead of just a new language, it's a language that nondeterministically creates "code" or a resemblance thereof.

And I am aware that this is currently not a popular opinion on HN, so keep the downvotes coming.

If you use LLMs outside the popular Github languages, it will fail hard on you. It is glorified text-completion, that's what it is.