I use AI/LLMs hard for my programming.

They allow me to do work I could never have done before.

But there’s no chance at all of an LLM one shotting anything that I aim to build.

Every single step in the process is an intensely human grind trying to understand the LLM and coax it to make the thing I have in mind.

The people who are panicking aren’t using this stuff in depth. If they were, then they would have no anxiety at all.

If only the LLM was smart enough to write the software. I wish it could. It can’t, nor even close.

As for web browsers built in a few hours. No. No LLM is coming anywhere new at building a web browser in a few hours. Unless your talking about some super simple super minimal toy with some of the surface appearance of a web browser.

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ChrisMarshallNY 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This has been my experience. I tend to use chats, in a synchronous, single-threaded manner, as opposed to agents, in an asynchronous way. That’s because I think of the LLM as a “know-it-all smartass personal assistant”; not an “employee replacement.”

I just enjoy writing my own software. If I have a tool that will help me to lubricate the tight bits, I’ll use it.

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Tade0 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Same. I hit Tab a lot because even though the system doesn't actually understand what it's doing, it's really good at following patterns. Takes off the mental load of checking syntax.

Occasionally of course it's way off, in which case I have to tell it to stfu ("snooze").

Also it's great at presenting someone else's knowledge, as it doesn't actually know facts - just what token should come after a sequence of others. The other day I just pasted an error message from a system that I wasn't familiar with and it explained in detail what the problem was and how to solve it - brilliant, just what I wanted.

	▲	ChrisMarshallNY 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> The other day I just pasted an error message from a system that I wasn't familiar with and it explained in detail what the problem was and how to solve it That’s probably the single most valuable aspect, for me.

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Ezhik 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm less afraid of people using LLMs for coding well than I am of people not caring to and just shipping slop.

This is the browser engine I was alluding to in the post: https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender