LLMs Are Not Enjoyable | Lobsters

I’ll say, personally, I discover it a bit extra enjoyable to navigate a high-dimensional set of constraints to provide you with an method that works, than the extra tedious and mechanical act of writing the code and checks to implement it.

A few occasions within the final month, my coworkers and I put collectively a classy design (far out of attain of present LLMs), after which had Opus 4.5 prototype it to indicate it really works. Getting a working demo in hours slightly than days or even weeks has actually sped up prototyping, and let me spend extra of my time rotating shapes than I in any other case would.

Another couple of occasions I’ve had Opus 4.5 handle some extremely tedious work (resembling resolving massive merge conflicts on a bit rotted sequence of commits) that then let me full a function I’d been wanting for some time.

Overall, I’d say Opus 4.5 has considerably elevated how a lot enjoyable I’m having programming, although I positively perceive that folks discover different issues significant and would possibly disagree.

edit: must also point out {that a} somewhat-unexpected secondary profit is that writing down the design has made my coworkers’ lives higher too. Now they, too, can feed the LLM the identical doc and resolve complicated merge conflicts in a approach that conforms to the design. As somebody with a background in developer instruments, making my coworkers’ lives higher is deeply significant to me, and sure, enjoyable.