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I could do this before too. The way I work is that I just write some functions, fully annotated, in whatever language the project is in, with a comment on what I expect the code to do, and an empty return. Then get an LLM to fill in the functions.

Helps me think about the problem, like your post mentioned, but I don't have to pay a tax on converting a prototyping language to a different language.

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This is how I liked to write software pre-LLM. Top down. Write the interface and tests first, implementation second. I think I got it from SICP. "Wish-driven programming" I think I heard once.

That’s exactly what this editor is for, except that your original written version is retained and source-mapped to the code that it generated. So as a project grows in size and complexity, you have a smaller foot print of human-written intent that acts as a reference. There’s no “prototyping language”, it’s just whatever you want to write.

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