I know someone is going to tell me I’m just “doing it wrong”, or bragging but, I’ve written some *extremely basic* code this week with an LLM (I know I know, but it was mandated that I *try*).
I am absolutely certain I could have written this faster myself.
Feeling super “accelerated” as I sit here… patiently waiting… shitposting on the internet… instead of doing the work I could have been doing.
But hey, those tokens won’t use up themselves!
Oh phew, someone else on the team built a “Slop Detection” “skill” for the LLM so now it will magically stop being a statistical model and instead be a statistical model with ✨ slightly different inputs ✨.
Thank you kind stranger, I couldn’t have done it without you.
Okay I actually timed it: 8 minutes and 40 seconds to delete 13 lines and add 4.
I sure hope my promotion prospects aren’t based on lines of code / hour, or I’m in real trouble compared to my baseline.
But it’s okay, because the LLM promises those 17 lines changes aren’t slop. It spent 3 minutes making sure they aren’t slop.
Motherfucker, I could have told you in 0.3 seconds.
“Oh but the real speed gains come from having swarms of them working in parallel”:
1. Conservatively, at this rate I would need 20 “agents” working in parallel to get the speed anywhere near my level.
2. I don’t have 20 changes I want to make to my code, so that isn’t plausible.
3. Have you tried integrating 20 merge conflicts? Hint: It takes longer than you think. But okay, we can just account for that additional slowdown by having *40* agents work in parallel except then we need to integra…
Philip Mallegol-Hansen