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0 pointssimonw1y ago0 comments

I've been leaning hard on LLMs to help me write code for just over two years now. I mainly work in Python and JavaScript, which are both languages that LLMs are extremely good at, but I also use them for languages I hardly know at all like jq and Bash and AppleScript and Go.

I've published a ton of notes on this here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-programming/ and https://simonwillison.net/series/using-llms/

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codr71y ago

And what kind of experience do you have using these languages?

simonwOP1y ago

I co-created Django. I've been writing about JavaScript since 2002. https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript/

codr71y ago

What kind of code is the LLM writing for you that you see as such a big win?

Sorry, about the interrogation, but I'm curious to understand this disconnect between us. To me, for my way of working, LLM's are obviously mostly useless, destructive to the process even.

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codr71y ago

And what kind of experience do you have using these languages?

simonwOP1y ago

I co-created Django. I've been writing about JavaScript since 2002. https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript/

codr71y ago

What kind of code is the LLM writing for you that you see as such a big win?

Sorry, about the interrogation, but I'm curious to understand this disconnect between us. To me, for my way of working, LLM's are obviously mostly useless, destructive to the process even.

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