I'm fundamentally a tool builder, and LLM coding agents work one million times better if you give them good tools, and I wrote a thing about this

https://john.regehr.org/writing/zero_dof_programming.html

zero_dof_programming

@regehr wow, a refreshing look at LLMs that isn't simply marketing hype! Really appreciate it. Interesting to see the kind of work and strict scoping this takes. Also seems like IMO LLMs still really don't outweigh the negatives & cost
@kworker regarding "don't outweigh the negatives and cost" -- entirely possible. I avoided these things as long as I could, and I would still be avoiding them if I had a different job
@regehr yeah I hear ya. I won't repeat a laundry list that I think many people are familiar with, I just think LLMs have turned out to be very negative for society
@kworker I don’t even think we’ve seen the impact of the negatives yet