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Development speed is not a bottleneck

(pawelbrodzinski.substack.com)
191 points flail | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 13:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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sega_sai ◴[05 Sep 25 16:06 UTC] No.45140148[source]▶
I completely disagree. As a scientist who does a lot of coding, the modern LLM tools give me ability to code something which previously I could not afford, because I simply did not have time for it. Now if I have an idea, I may be able to test it in an hour of tinkering with claude/gemini. I could technically still code it myself, but in some cases that would require maybe a day of work -- and I simply don't have that.
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1. patrulek ◴[06 Sep 25 07:39 UTC] No.45147370[source]▶
Im not a scientist, just a freelancer (kind of) and its similar for me. I know probably only 2 langauges fluently enough that i could write in them without constantly checking for syntax/docs, but over my whole programming journey i got to know multiple languages with different syntaxes, coding styles and patterns, so i can easily read code written in multiple languages and know whether given code will do what i want (and even if i wouldn't, LLM can explain the code for me and in the worst case send me to the documentation to validate it by myself).

Asking LLM for a code and then read/review it is a huge speed up for me in a lot of cases comparing to when i would need to write the same thing by myself (but i agree it may not work well in a big/complex systems... yet).