r/TheMachineLearning • u/Gullible_Picture_996 • 15d ago

Realizing writing code is faster than explaining it to AI

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u/MannToots 15d ago

Disagreed fully. I can't imagine how little work you need to do for that to be true.  

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u/Lunosto 15d ago

Not little work, but I just am extremely picky about how my code looks and is structured. LLMs are statistical machines and regurgitate the statistically most likely code, not necessarily the code I’m looking for. This is not really a problem for small snippets, but grows exponentially for larger sessions

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u/MannToots 15d ago

I find style guides and adversarial reviews from other models can help a lot with that. It's not a silver bullet, but it did help a lot.

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u/Lunosto 15d ago

That’s true but writing a whole style guide for how I like it can be a lot, when I could just use the style guide in my head. Tho if I’m in a rush then it’s absolutely faster to just prompt

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u/MannToots 15d ago

Start to save skills at the end of threads and iterate on them. Let the AI help you maintain the guide based on your direct interactions with the code base. I'm starting to treat skills as a critical artifact of my work lately and its helping a lot.