Re:AI assisted search-based research works now
by simonw on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @04:07PM
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From that same essay:
> If your reaction to this is “surely typing out the code is faster than typing out an English instruction of it”, all I can tell you is that it really isn’t for me any more. Code needs to be correct. English has enormous room for shortcuts, and vagaries, and typos, and saying things like “use that popular HTTP library” if you can’t remember the name off the top of your head.
Using LLMs as part of my coding work speeds me up by a significant amount.
> If your reaction to this is “surely typing out the code is faster than typing out an English instruction of it”, all I can tell you is that it really isn’t for me any more. Code needs to be correct. English has enormous room for shortcuts, and vagaries, and typos, and saying things like “use that popular HTTP library” if you can’t remember the name off the top of your head.
Using LLMs as part of my coding work speeds me up by a significant amount.