But when it worked there was no work being done. The repo just stayed there, working. Doing nothing.
A few LLM commits have kickstarted the process of a lot of people checking their rsync versions, choosing the correct one. And so on. That is work that wasn’t being done before, and now it is done thanks to LLMs. Truly a wonder of our times.
You may not like it, but this is what 10x productivity looks like.
Move fast and break things. Features over stability.
Makes sense for a lean startup. Not so much for a widely used utility for backing up important data.
This is negative productivity. It worked before, and now it doesn’t.
But when it worked there was no work being done. The repo just stayed there, working. Doing nothing.
A few LLM commits have kickstarted the process of a lot of people checking their rsync versions, choosing the correct one. And so on. That is work that wasn’t being done before, and now it is done thanks to LLMs. Truly a wonder of our times.
It’s the chain of life!
Reminds me of that Douglas Crockford talk on managers. I’ll see if I can dig it up.
I wonder what he thinks about LLMs.
Okay, I imagine that using an LLM is like having several Tasmanian Devils on your team.