Post #2189726
2026-04-27 00:58 UTC
@headius@mastodon.social I don’t think it’s possible to write non-trivial code with an LLM without understanding both the code and the system architecture.
So often, LLMs write code that does a single thing but without regard for the system that thing is operating in… ensuring the code is appropriate for the system is what I focus on.
If anything, it’s forced me to be explicit about how the software is shaped in a way that was implicit for my past 48 years of writing software
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@headius@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 01:03
@dpp@mastodon.social Those decisions about system architecture are exactly what I see people delegating now. Once you give up decisions about how to build the small pieces, the large pieces come next. The sickly sweet taste of not having to make a decision yourself infects the entire thought process. Perhaps you will be able to avoid that slow decay by only letting LLMs focus on the small pieces while you decide how they should fit together. That's not the trend I'm seeing.