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>I can't think of a single recent technology that was so widely adopted by tech and non-tech people alike, immediately integrated into day-to-day experience.

This is not meant to be an offense, but you are in a bubble. The vast, vast majority of people do not use LLMs in their day-to-day life. That’s ok, we’re all in our own bubbles.

You should also post the 2048 clone as proof. Lots people saying they built X in Y minutes with AI. But, when it’s inspected, it’s revealed it very obviously doesn’t work right and needs more development.




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

https://github.com/williamcotton/guish

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!


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.


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?


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.


> You should also post the 2048 clone as proof.

I posted it twice already in this thread, but I guess third time's the charm: http://jacek.zlydach.pl/v/2048/ (code: https://git.sr.ht/~temporal/aider-2048).

It's definitely not 100% correct (I just spotted a syntactic issue in HTML, for example), and I bet a lot of people will find some visual issue on their browser/device configuration. I don't care. It works on my desktop, it works on my phone, it's even better than the now-enshittified web and Android versions I used to play. I'm content :).


It is too large for my phone display (iphone SE). Do you think chatgpt can fix it?


Yes. It does so trivially, but in the process it breaks the CSS for larger screens. I couldn't get it to get both to work at the same time in 5 minutes of trying. My modern CSS skills aren't good enough to quickly notice what the problem is, so it's beyond my horizon of caring (but I do encourage hints I could pass on to the AI).


>Yes. It does so trivially

>but in the process it breaks the CSS for larger screens.

So, no, it doesn’t fix it trivially. Also isn’t correctly sized on iPhone 11 Safari.


It does fix it trivially, just in a way that causes regression on larger screens :).

As mentioned above, I don't care. It's sized correctly for the devices I use to play it, and I'm not going to put any more work into this. I mean, even junior web devs get paid stupidly high salaries for doing Responsive Web Design; I ain't gonna work on this for free.

(But I will accept AI-generated patches, or human-generated advice I could paste into the prompt to get a correct solution :P.)




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