LLMs reward expertise

Re:LLMs reward expertise by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @05:06AM (#49166043)

> The only way I can maintain my pace of branched trial-and-error is by using claude.ai/chat and manually extricating code fragments to and from my codebase. The human is still the best harness for production-level code.

That’s been the way I do it.

I suppose that it will be considered “quaint,” soon enough, but I have found it to be effective.

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Re:LLMs reward expertise by roncesvalles on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @06:15AM (#49166505)

And the best part is, I don't spend more than $20 a month on LLMs. Going manual and constantly branching keeps the contexts super lean.

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Re:LLMs reward expertise by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @06:41AM (#49166704)

I’m likely to switch to the $100/month sub, but I want to finish this project on the $20 one first, as a “proof of concept.”

I think it’s valuable enough to justify the price, and I want it to use the better model, as much as possible.

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