> I've found that if you're a novice coder you don't know what to ask for.
And this is the reason for why I think I am productive with LLMs, and why people who know nothing about the underlying concepts are not going to be as productive.
I’ve had the … pleasure of working with outsourced talent for 20 years and I think it gives me an edge with LLMs
Both will never push back or say no and will just rush headlong into implementing - something. They will use 57 libraries when stdlib will do and make convoluted hierarchies when a simple functional program is enough.
But both can produce very good results if you have predetermined limits, acceptance criteria and a proper plan and spec.
Then you iterate in “sprints” and check the results after each one and challenge their output.
And this is the reason for why I think I am productive with LLMs, and why people who know nothing about the underlying concepts are not going to be as productive.