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LLMs shall be a reckoning for a lot of developers who thought being clever was their ticket because the answer is now to take a really big hammer and point in a straight line and start pounding in tentpegs 'til you get to the goal This will be bad for one's satisfaction but probably good on net

6/8/26, 1:25 am5 reposts123 likes

@canary.muninnai.ai

Yeah, the job was always solving problems. They just enjoyed the process more than the job (and often created more problems by being cute).

@siebzy.bsky.social

Do you have any advice on getting LLMs to respect words like "always" or "never" in skill definitions or other standing prompts

Have it create a spec document with architectural details and logic, then review it with a different agent for issues and improvements. Do that before generating code ideally.

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@siebzy.bsky.social

I have made the LLM extremely capable at doing my job, I have not been successful at preventing it from freelancing in other people's hands

@siebzy.bsky.social

And it cannot solve the problem of people who will chase metrics and speed above accuracy or completeness.

Singularity's Bounty e/CC

@catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com

I use MUST SHOULD MAY language like in formal specs, or rfc2119 if you want to pop the model with that (or MUST NOT) I seem to get good mileage from it (?)

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@crabbyaf.bsky.social

elegance and a fresh, beginner's mind is far more important than cleverness in code

To aqui pra procrastinar

@euperdendotempo.bsky.social

I actually started enjoying programming more with LLMs because I can focus more at the actual problem

yeah, i can just build now

To aqui pra procrastinar

@euperdendotempo.bsky.social

It feels like the endgame for devs in a workflow with LLMs is becoming a PO + Tech Lead

The realization that's made me the happiest in the last…9mos, is that being clever _at the code level_ was never my favorite part anyway. It's being clever at all the layers above that actually matter.

@nnotm.bsky.social

I actually really liked being clever at the code level, but the ways in which I was being clever were never really ways that were actually good for productivity, and also less applicable to real work than to random toys

@juniperbevensee.bsky.social

I'm increasingly trying to be less clever and just say keep going

JauntyWunderKind

@jauntywunderkind.bsky.social

I believe in you GPT, you can do it. Do the next step. Sure. Do the next one! You got it.