Post #2080117
2026-04-29 14:20 UTC
@wren6991
I wrote code for 40 years, C and Java. I came to the LLMs with no preconceptions.
Here's the TL;DR for reasonable use of an LLM, doing things you'll like and respect.
When you're beginning, you'll want to ask for code. Ask for spec instead.
Spec is cheap. The LLM can shit out a mountain of code, never accept that sort of thing. But guided by a well constructed spec, it's writing good code.
And that code is about as good as your own code. Given a lousy spec and a handwave of a go-get-'em, your code would be awful, too
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@tuban_muzuru@beige.party 2026-04-29 20:44
@wren6991 LLM and the way you test: There's a vital aspect of programming, bread 'n butter data processing, the Message Queue. Testing queue-based systems requires complexity beyond the vanilla Test frameworks. If there is, I find it easier to write my own tests than allow the LLM to write that class of test... fwiw