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[−]scotty79 · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:38 UTC · link
> Last time I tried using an LLM for a pet project, I realized that the LLM would come to know more about it than pretty much any person I could show it to.

I was quite reluctant to show my own code to AI. I was doing greenfield experiments for months before I gave AI anything that contained any code that I was proud of.

But when I did, it understood it very well, better than any person I could show it would be able to. And extended it very well. My programs, even the most complex ones became way better and did more than I could ever hope to achieve myself.

Basically at this moment I had to conclude that LLMs might be better than a developer with 20 years of expeirience. This was more than half a year ago at this point.