It sounds great for prototyping. Once you do a month's experimentation in a day and generate some shit app that barely works, but looks functional, you have a definite goal to recreate that design but working properly.

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ryandrake 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It seems like an absolute dream for corporate execs who don't know anything about development, see a taped-together prototype built in a day, and think to themselves "Wow, we're 90% done... we could almost ship that!!"

	▲	vitorfblima 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Well, from my experience, if the AI dev is ill intended, he can just say nothing then the exec will go "we can ship now as it is!"

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pizzafeelsright 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This was true a while ago. Today we are replacing decades old sloppy production code with 100% verified better code through tests written by AI, code written by AI. This is not looking functional but drop in functional replacement with measurable improvements.

	▲	dfee 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		there are two camps: those who have spent the tokens to figure out how to wield AI, and those who haven't. unfortunately, it's not cheap to get to the former category… and i imagine it'd be difficult to lose access to that tooling and fall back to the second category.

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a_c 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Indeed it is. I’m very grateful to what LLM enables me.

The revelation to me was that I used to code what I know, now I could code what I don’t know. The common path is that when I face something I don’t know, which is quite often, to move forward I have to level up my understanding.