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[-] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 18 hours ago

Interesting thing I see is that LLM slop generators are actually quite efficient at generating documentation, both for the end users and for developers, and like human generated slop-docs, the more cycles you put into review and refinement of them (both human guided and LLM self-review/refinement) the better quality you get out. Investing even half the person-hours in LLM generated documentation generates higher quality, more complete, better organized and more readable documentation for me than "working with a team" of writers who all have to meet and re-meet and explain and re-explain ad-nauseum until we're all sick of the process and late for delivery of the documentation products.

When this documentation investment is made in the code, some remarkable things come out like: a project co-developed with Claude in Python took 10 interactive days to make. At the end, the Python was performing fine but a little on the noticeably slow side, so the LLM was told "do it again in Go" and 3 days later with very minimal prompting, the whole thing was re-implemented in Go, running 10x faster, and flawlessly performing the same functions which were developed in Python in 10 days - I believe precisely because a significant part of the Python project was: documentation of requirements, design specifications and automated tests.

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