James Thomson
A fun pastime is to get an LLM to write some code, and then paste it immediately back into the same LLM and ask it to look for problems. “Wow, some real idiot wrote this!” it will say, so close to an epiphany.
Feb 28 at 1:30amIvory for iOS
Show threadMichael CookFeb 28

@jamesthomson Literally did that to me yesterday with SwiftUI (which I only know the basics of).

Me: How do I do X?

It: Here’s code to do X!

Me: Why does it need the Thing in it?

It: It doesn’t need that, you can remove it!

Me: 🤦‍♂️

Show threadRyan Goodlett Feb 28
@jamesthomson so a time-compressed version of what we all do when we look at old code?
Show threadsharon linne faulkFeb 28
@jamesthomson I had a boss like that. He would tell me what he wanted. I did it and he said “don’t be stupid.” 🤬
Show threadMichael LysonsFeb 28
@jamesthomson So it’s only right when it tells you it’s wrong?
Show threadJames ThomsonFeb 28
@mlysons Well, that’s the paradox somebody is lying, clearly.
Show threadMichael LysonsFeb 28
@jamesthomson Hallucinating! 🤪
Show threadJosh HrachFeb 28
@jamesthomson I had Claude take a little app idea from nothing to prototype the other day. I should ask Claude to review it. Might be a fun way to use AI.