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brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
one of the things I noticed when coding yestersay is the thought process to "I want this feature" to the actual code is very nonlinear and often includes just writing the actual code.
I was trying to keep a devlog to remember my progress and this often meant going back after I had coded something to do the writeup. which future self will very much thank me for, but it was very much a process of natural language reconstruction of code (and nonlinear thought processes) rather than coming up with the natural language first and the code later.
that is to say: no wonder I prefer actual coding to whatever you do with LLMs, because I very rarely find "express the thing you want in English but in a way an LLM can understand" to be any sort of productivity improvement. I already find natural language an incredibly unnatural way to work with computers. I'd rather just express what I want in code and get the advantage of determinism.