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Nobody is earning a living writing hello world programs, and in real programs perfection doesn't exist. Perfection is at best a widely-held opinion.

Yeah to be honest I still find Claude too verbose with Fable 5.1, I much prefer the output style of OpenAI's models. With strict guidelines it can be improved but it tends to drift in longer conversations.

If you haven't tried any of the newer models from the last ~6 months, you're out of touch. A year ago, LLMs were essentially just a clever search engine for me, I found they fell apart pretty quickly on bigger codebases and more complex projects.

It doesn't always write perfect code on a first pass but nor do you, and it's amazing at understanding any issues it may encounter, even very low level ones. I don't think there's anything I can do that it can't now. There is a learning curve to working well with LLMs, but once you get there you'll be producing high quality code faster than you can imagine.

Part of me wishes they weren't so good. I enjoy(ed?) the process of working through problems and it does mean you might no longer have a perfect mental model of your code. But I do also enjoy being able to build things well and fast.

Do you write perfect code? I was in denial for a long time too, but the reality is this is how software engineering is now. It can handle pretty much any codebase and vastly faster than you ever will be able to. With enough context, it writes good code and it's only getting better.

This has all the hallmarks of AI slop. Upsetting :/