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I got here and... I agreed with everything up to this point.

The author makes a good point. If you don't know what you're doing, AI accelerates that. No question.

But they put a whopping... ten bucks into using DeepSeek and weren't impressed with the initial results.

I know they try to cover this with "you just aren't prompting correctly!" but if, in 2026, you aren't able to have an LLM generate decent quality code... IDK what to tell you. Good luck I guess?

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> in 2026, you aren't able to have an LLM generate decent quality code

Nobody is. The only difference is that some of us are willing to say the emperor has no clothes.

I am.

The workflow isnt a single prompt then you have working code from the LLM, its 30 prompts of discussion and then reading each proposed edit and having tangent discussions until you're somewhat ok with it. Then reviewing the changeset as a whole and refactoring a few times

> but if, in 2026, you aren't able to have an LLM generate decent quality code... IDK what to tell you.

I think the author's point still stands. At some point you need to determine whether the output is of decent quality. A lot of people don't have the ability and experience to do that.

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