Stop Generating, Start Thinking

Re:Stop Generating, Start Thinking by acjohnson55 on Monday February 09, 2026 @01:46AM (#46942294)

I'm working in a very mature codebase on product features that are not technically unprecedented, which probably is determining a lot of my experience so far. Very possible that I'm experiencing a sweet spot.

I can totally imagine that in greenfield, the LLM is going to explore huge search spaces. I can see that when observing the reasoning of these same models in non-coding contexts.

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Re:Stop Generating, Start Thinking by written-beyond on Monday February 09, 2026 @04:35AM (#46943389)

That's exactly what I meant, when I've used LLMs on mature code bases it does very well because the code base was curated by engineers. When you have a greenfield project it's slop central, it's literally whatever the LLM has been trained on and the LLM can get to compile and run.

Which is still okay, only until I have access to good and cheap LLMs.

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