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To those who have played around with LLM code generation more than me, how are they at debugging?
I’m thinking of Kernighan’s Law: “Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” If vibe coding reduces the complexity of writing code by 10x, but debugging remains just as difficult as before, then Kernighan’s Law needs to be updated to say debugging is 20x as hard as vibe coding. Vibe coders have no hope of bridging that gap.
Working just fine. It one shot a kodi tv channel addon for me last week end. Used it to integrate kofax into docusign. Building 2 blazor apps one new one an upgrade. Used it to create a stack of mc servers for the kids with a dashboard of statuses and control switches. My son is working on his own mc mod with it. Use it almost daily for random file organization and management scripts. Using it to clean uo my media library meta data. Anytime i have to do something to more than 5 or so files i pull it up and ask for a script.
Its a tool like any other. There will be people who adapt and people who fail to. Just like we had with computers the internet. It zeems to be long forgotten now but literally ALL of these anti ai arguments were made against computers and the internet 30_50 years ago. Very similar ones were made when books and writing became common place as well.
Apparently I’m not up to date. I’ve been impressed by some things and turned off by others. But I haven’t seen any workflows or setups that enabled access to my file system. How is that accomplished, and are there any safeguards around it?
I didnt give it access just had it make sceipts in various languages to handle large repetative file tasks. Something that wpuld take me 30-45 minutes toclpoks up and piece together it can do is 30-45 seconds. And depending on how simple or able you are to describe the task at hand the better it can do. Even when i know what i want to type, like during the blazor conversion it simply types faster for a much simpler prompt. Once i had a single page sorted i asked it for a step by step of what we did. Then took that and said ‘hey do this to the follpwing page abc.html’ and done. Then just tell it ‘now this page …’ etc etc. That was in copilot though so it could see my solutions files.
“Some random people were wrong about something in the past so nobody is allowed to speculate that any technology isn’t as revolutionary as it’s hyped to be ever again” is not a useful or compelling argument.