Post #1425814
2026-04-17 17:33 UTC
Possibly late to the game, but this week is the first time I've tried using LLM code gen stuff in anger and I've come away impressed. What I've been doing may be a perfect use case for it -- very well defined -- but it generated hundreds of lines of (seemingly) working code with little input. All while I was doing something else.
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@sdarlington@mas.to 2026-04-17 17:35
Could I have done it myself? Yes. Would my version have been better? Maybe, maybe not. But it's like my Roomba. I can do a better job of cleaning... but I have to actually do it. And I don't (honestly). I *could* have written this code, but would I ever have found the time? Probably not.
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@vaughnsc@techhub.social 2026-04-17 19:30
@sdarlington @ianRobinson Thanks for this; I’ve started dabbling with Claude Code but with great! trepidation!; sandboxing it (“make me a demo app that does x with these constraints” rather that working anywhere near my code base). But your ‘would I ever find the time’ and ‘perfect is the enemy of good’ points are both excellent.