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0 pointswilliamcotton1y ago0 comments

I hand-wrote perhaps 10-20 lines of this project:

The rest is Claude 3.5 (with a dash of GPT-4o) with a LOT of supervision!

I'd say I'm about 8 hours deep and that this would have taken me at least 30+ hours to get it to the current state of polish.

I used it to make some graphs at work today!

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bomewish1y ago· 2 in thread

Quite interesting — but how is it fundamentally more productive than being in VS code in R or python? You don’t get any of the benefits of an IDE here. I often find myself doing very similar workflows but default to either VS Code or the shell. Trying to imagine this truly making workflows faster/easier/more efficient, but can’t figure it.

williamcottonOP1y ago

Maybe it isn’t? I am just experimenting with new UX! Maybe it could be integrated into an editor of… the fuuuturrre!

But seriously, do you have any thoughts or suggestions?

bomewish1y ago

Unfortunately not! I do very similar workflows honestly but have basically defaulted to the norm or compromises like: - write own cli in python that does the sql wrapping and basic transforms and cleaning - read in the csv with R to make plots and tables.

Boring.

Cursor with 3.5 sonnet has made all this way faster so that’s nice. Often LLMs are now featuring in these pipelines and I see libraries like data bonsai and instructor being helpful. But yeah idk. No bright ideas here but always on the lookout to optimise.

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