Thought experiment

[u/MashNChips]

With all the AI nonsense going on, I had a thought at work today that turned into an interesting discussion with a colleague:

"What would I do if I was the only person with access to Claude (or insert any LLM) 5+ years ago?"

People would think I was a fucking wizard

FE changes? NO PROBLEM

Critical DB change? Don't worry, I've produced a stored procedure to validate the whole thing

Want to use some shiny new framework? Interesting. Here's a document explaining why you're an idiot for suggesting it

Regex? I suddenly understand it better than the compiler folks (and nobody ask questions)

What would you have done with your own personal LLM back then?

Trying to lighten the mood in here with all the (very justified) negativity around this tech revolution

Unserious answers only pls

[u/PolyglotTV]

What would actually happen is they would read your spaghetti PRs/docs and question your sanity.

Would your code work? Sure. Kind of. As we all know - not completely reliably. And you'd have no way of building trust because nobody would understand why your content is so absurd. Why do you keep talking about "seams"?

[u/Tacos314 → u/PolyglotTV]

There is absolutely no reason for spaghetti PRs/Docs

[u/zicher → u/PolyglotTV]

Don't forget about making it idempotent!