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Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/... Table of contents:

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I haven't personally experienced prompt driven app development to be actually practical in possibility. I've seen the "todo app" frontend file of code, but I've yet to be able to prompt a *cohesive* deployable backend, OpenAPI, database schema, and frontend with all components, methods, and services

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Simon Willison

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1 Jan 2025

That might be a bit too much to get just from prompting - the largest example I have right now is probably this Django app and it's still pretty small simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/8/d...

simonwillison.netdjango-http-debug, a new Django app mostly written by ClaudeYesterday I finally developed something I’ve been casually thinking about building for a long time: django-http-debug. It’s a reusable Django app—something you can pip install into any Django project—...

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1 Jan 2025

Yeah I've noticed it can handle really small bits well, but when it comes to even a simple CRUD app (even well defined with functional requirements, user stories, and workflows), it can't stay cohesive and struggles mightily. That to me is an unmet baseline for producing a real web application