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constantly fail to even compile because, for example, they mix usages of different SDK versions

Try an agentic tool like Claude Code - it closes the loop by testing the compilation for you, and fixing its mistakes (like human programmers do) before bothering you for another prompt. I was where you are at 6 months ago, the tools have improved dramatically since then.

From TFS > I needed to make a small change and realized I wasn’t confident I could do it. My own product, built under my direction, and I’d lost confidence in my ability to modify it.

That sounds like a “fractional CTO problem” to me (IMO a fractional CTO is a guy who convinces several small companies that he’s a brilliant tech genius who will help them make their important tech decisions without actually paying full-time attention to any of them. Actual tech experience: optional.)

If you have lost confidence in your ability to modify your own creation, that’s not a tools problem - you are the tool, that’s a you problem. It doesn’t matter if you’re using an LLM coding tool, or a team of human developers, or a pack of monkeys to code your applications, if you don’t document and test and formally develop an “understanding” of your product that not only you but all stakeholders can grasp to the extent they need to, you’re just letting the development run wild - lacking a formal software development process maturity. LLMs can do that faster than a pack of monkeys, or a bunch of kids you hired off Craigslist, but it’s the exact same problem no matter how you slice it.

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kahnclusions@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I’m talking exactly about Claude and I ran into these problems a few weeks ago, still makes these mistakes. If you mean I have to install Claude’s software on my own computer, no thanks.

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III@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The LLM comparison to a team of human developers is a great example. But like outsourcing your development, LLM is less a tool and more just delegation. And yes, you can dig in deep to understand all the stuff the LLM is delegated to do the same as you can get deeply involved with a human development team to maintain an understanding. But most of the time, the sell is that you can save time - which means you aren’t expecting to micro manage your development team.

It is a fractional CTO problem but the actual issue is that developers are being demanded to become fractional CTOs by using LLM because they are being measured by expected productivity increases that limit time for understanding.

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- Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  thats an interesting take, developers are demanded to also become fractional CTO, there is probably a larger than estimated knowledge and experience gap there and unless you have the knack for managing people you probably run into more problems that you are used to being a code jockey
  
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- MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  the sell is that you can save time
  
  How do you know when salespeople (and lawyers) are lying? It’s only when their lips are moving.
  
  developers are being demanded to become fractional CTOs by using LLM because they are being measured by expected productivity increases that limit time for understanding.
  
  That’s the kind of thing that works out in the end. Like outsourcing to Asia, etc. It does work for some cases, it can bring sustainable improvements to the bottom line, but nowhere near as fast or easy or cheaply as the people selling it say.
  
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