> I'll get the equivalent 40 hours of work done in 8 hours.... Then I'll start using the application... and I'll start to see that it's broken all over the place in very surprising ways
I would say that this means that it only appeared that you got 40 hours of work done.
> I'm sure someone is going to be like "BRUH AUTOMATED TESTS" or "BRUH MODEL CHOICE". I have a LOT of automated tests, and I don't like fussing with models so I pretty much use Opus on high reasoning for most things (or the equivalent from other providers).
Bruh, manual tests. It shouldn't be an entire day until you "start using the application more directly". It's rare that you really know what you want until you try something that isn't what you want, and figure out what's wrong with it. LLMs aren't privy to your thought patterns, so they can't help with that.
I would say that this means that it only appeared that you got 40 hours of work done.
> I'm sure someone is going to be like "BRUH AUTOMATED TESTS" or "BRUH MODEL CHOICE". I have a LOT of automated tests, and I don't like fussing with models so I pretty much use Opus on high reasoning for most things (or the equivalent from other providers).
Bruh, manual tests. It shouldn't be an entire day until you "start using the application more directly". It's rare that you really know what you want until you try something that isn't what you want, and figure out what's wrong with it. LLMs aren't privy to your thought patterns, so they can't help with that.