The point he’s making - that LLM’s aren’t ready for broadly unsupervised software development - is well made.
It still requires an exhausting amount of thought and energy to make the LLM go in the direction I want, which is to say in a direction which considers the code which is outside the current context window.
I suspect that we will not solve the context window problem for a long time. But we will see a tremendous growth in “on demand tooling” for things which do fit into a context window and for which we can let the AI “do whatever it wants.”
For me, my work product needs to conform to existing design standards and I can’t figure out how to get Claude to not just wire up its own button styles.
But it’s remarkable how—despite all of the nonsense—these tools remain an irreplaceable part of my work life.
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