Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs

The LLM started with a three month headstart, both in terms of code, using the previous game as a template, and more importantly, all of the learnings and mistakes you made in the hand-coded pass.

Yeah, I figured this was clickbait but my jaw still dropped a bit when I saw this:

  I cloned the backend for Truco and gave Claude a long prompt explaining the rules of Escoba and asking it to refactor the code to implement it.

How long would it take the human dev to refactor the code themselves? I think it's plausible that it would be longer than 3 days, but maybe not!

As an LLM hater, I have to say, this is exactly the use case I want code generation for. If I need to figure out the problem as I develop, which is the case for new code, the model can kindly get out of my way. But if I have already written a bunch of code and I can explain the problem with the understanding that I've gained from my implementation and have the bot redo the grunt work? fine with me..