Without saying that I think LLMs are alive, I do think it matters. I have personally been cruel to an LLM in ways that would make me ashamed if I suddenly understand that it had feelings.
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On another note, I do not understand how posts make it to the top of the front page with essentially no comments.
https://speedscale.com/blog/building-speedy-autonomous-ai-de...
This is like saying the CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md is irrelevant because the LLM generated it.
I have actually found something close to the opposite. I work on a large codebase and I often use the LLM to generate artifacts before performing the task (for complex tasks). I use a prompt to say "go explore this area if the code and write about it". It documents concepts and has pointers to specific code. Then a fresh session can use that without reading the stuff that doesn't matter. It uses more tokens overall, but includes important details that can get totally missed when you just let it go.
> That is not software engineering or development, it's brogrammer trash.
Yes, but it's working. I'm still reading the code and calling out specific issues to Claude, but it's less and less.
But if you do professional development and use something like Claude Code (the current standard, IMO) you'll quickly get a handle on what it's good at and what it isn't. I think it took me about 3-4 weeks of working with it at an overall 0x gain to realize what it's going to help me with and what it will make take longer.
``` review () { if [[ -n $(git status -s) ]] then echo 'must start with clean tree!' return 1 fi
git checkout pristine # a branch that I never commit to
git rebase origin/master
branch="$1"
git branch -D "$branch"
git checkout "$branch"
git rebase origin/master
git reset --soft origin/master
git reset
nvim -c ':G' # opens neovim with the fugitive plugin - replace with your favorite editor
git reset --hard
git status -s | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs rm
git checkout pristine
git branch -D "$branch"