People seem to use these tools very differently from each other. I value intelligence over speed any day. My programs are written in Haskell, so there are rarely any tasks which require thousands and thousands of lines to solve. Just intelligence. If there are rote tasks, I want the LLM to help me find intelligent ways of automating it: the right abstraction, the right meta-programming technique.

I constantly push Opus and GPT, and they are getting better. But still have to do the hardest parts myself. I would not mind waiting 10-15 minutes for the right 20 lines of code!

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sshine 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Why do you use Haskell? Why not something that produces a more predictable memory use at runtime? (I’m asking earnestly as a former Haskeller turned Rustacean who sees the value in “Boring Haskell”, but favours strictness for anything internet-facing and many things that aren’t compilers.)

	▲	black_knight 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I use Haskell because purity and strong typing gives so much control over what each part of the program does. This has huge benefits when it comes to security, and just general lack of bugs. Also, it makes the code easy to write, once the types are in place. I use Haskell because I find laziness to be a super power. I can solve so many problems in the most straightforward way, and then laziness saves my butt w.r.t. performance. I use Haskell because it is a better C than C is. The foreign function interface is brilliant, and I can take C primitives and apply all the abstraction mechanisms from Haskell to them. My latest project has been OpenGL based, so lots of caring about byte alignments and shovelling data to the GPU. But all this can be automated with clever use of type classes and Generics (Haskells super cool meta system of data types.) I use Haskell because I love applying abstractions to make code which describes the problem, and then the compiler finds the solution. I don’t do programming for embedded, so I am rarely memory constrained. I also understand Haskell memory usage quite well, and can get myself out of trouble.