i have been a professional programmer for a lifetime and the amount of work i can get done with an llm in a single afternoon absolutely blows my mind 🤯
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As a non professional programmer I still wait for AI to blow me
agreed
Imagine what you can do with 2 llms
And this is going to decimate the lower quality programmers who have jobs currently.
better git gud
How do I start with an LLM for coding? On Linux specifically?
I'm quite experienced, been coding since the very late 1900's, but I've been ignoring this
What LLMs should I use? I'm happy to pay a little for a good one
What text editor? I'm usually a vim user, but I guess I have to change.
So I can let the LLM have write access to the code? How is that safe and secure?
Can I give it instructions via voice input?
I want to do something dumb at first like: "set up a git repo for a python project. Please include the usual linting and static analyst tools, like type checking. We're going to implement a 'cashu mint'. Please implement a basic web server with the basic endpoints required in the mandatory NUTs. Start with just stub implementations of the endpoints, we can fill in the correct implementation together later"
Is that the kind of instruction that I can give?
I know almost nothing about coding but I managed to make this while driving. I would give prompts and then test it at stop lights.
Isn’t all your stuff broke 🤣
“I am creating, breaking fixing and then rebreaking at a speed my grandfather could only dream about!”
What are you using? I have been trying to code a website with Grok premium and it was a complete slog. Took me probably 6 hours. Site is a one page site. Once the site was there, Grok couldn’t make any changes without redoing everything and messing it all up.