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Inviting controversy with this take, which is outside of my comfort zone, but I do stand by it. You can generate good quality code with LLMs, it “just” requires a tonne of human oversight and automated guard rails. Got a week off then I’ll be building my first proper post with webernetes. Stoked.

How enjoyable/exhausting did you find the process? Having to review 100,000 lines of generated code sounds super exhausting and not all that enjoyable to me. Not judging or making a value statement, just genuinely curious about your experience.

That's kind of my problem with the whole LLM-assisted coding workflow. If you're diligent about it, the results can be just as good (± some variance based on the task) as me doing it myself, just faster. It just absolutely sucks the joy out of the process for me.

I’ve heard this sentiment from others, it’s very different to my own experience. I feel like I can take on more ambitious tasks than I used to be able to (case in point), and I actually really enjoy the process of coding with LLMs. It’s also great for hand pain.

The bit that was hell was staring at TypeScript and Go code side by side for weeks on end making sure that they were the same. Generating the code was the fun bit, reviewing it was horrendous.