Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs
by max_on_hn on Thursday May 29, 2025 @07:12PM
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I 100% agree that documenting requirements will be the main human input to software development in the near future.
In fact, I built an entirely headless coding agent for that reason: you put tasks in, you get PRs out, and you get journals of each run for debugging but it discourages micro-management so you stay in planning/documenting/architecting.
Every time I’ve tried to do that it takes longer than it would take me, and comes up with fairly obtuse solutions. The cursor agent seems incapable of putting code in the appropriate files in a functional language.
Recently I converted all the (Google Docs) documentation of a project to markdown files and added those to the workspace. It now indexes it with RAG and can easily find relevant bits of documentation, especially in agent mode.
It really stresses the importance of getting your documentation and processes in order as well as making sure the tasks at hand are well-specified. It soon might be the main thing that requires human input or action.