Comment by dotinvoke

Comment by dotinvoke 3 days ago

My experience with AI tools is the opposite. The biggest energy thieves for me are configuration issues, library quirks, or trivial mistakes that are hard to spot. With AI I can often just bulldoze past those things and spend more time on tangible results.

When using it for code or architecture or design, I’m always watching for signs that it is going off the rails. Then I usually write code myself for a while, to keep the structure and key details of whatever I’m doing correct.

troupo 3 days ago

For me, LLMs always, without fail get important details wrong.

- incessantly duplicating already existing functionality: utility functions, UI components etc.

- skipping required parameters like passing current user/actor to DB-related functions

- completely ignoring large and small chunks of existing UI and UI-related functionality like layouts or existing styles

- using ad-hoc DB queries or even iterating over full datasets in memory instead of setting up proper DB queries

And so on and so forth.

YYMV of course depending on language and project

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simonw 3 days ago

Sounds to me like you'd benefit from providing detailed instructions to LLMs about how they should avoid duplicating functionality (which means documenting the functionality they should be aware of), what kind of parameters are always required, setting up "proper DB queries" etc.
... which is exactly the kind of thing this new skills mechanism is designed to solve.

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- troupo 2 days ago
  
  > Sounds to me like you'd benefit from providing detailed instructions to LLMs about how they should avoid duplicating functionality
  That they routinely ignore.
  > which means documenting the functionality they should be aware of
  Which means spending inordinate amounts of time writing down about every single function and component and css and style which can otherwise be easily discovered by just searching. Or by looking at adjacent files.
  > which is exactly the kind of thing this new skills mechanism is designed to solve.
  I tried it yesterday. It immediately duplicated functionality, ignored existing styles and components, and created ad-hoc queries. It did feel like there were fewer times when it did that, but it's hard to quantify.
  
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