🔗 An LLM Codegen Hero's Journey
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- Author: Harper Reed’s Blog
- URL: harper.blog/2025/04/1…
Highlights
There’s so much interesting stuff on this piece, it puts a lot of “tangible” into this new way of software engineering. Interestingly, I don’t know how much this workflow translates into data science, where one often needs to get deep into coding to be able to fully define it (aka write a good prompt). But, paraphrasing this piece, maybe this is me being a bit of a “boomer data scientist”…
Our brains are often ruined by the rules of the past.
You will start coding defensively:
• really hardcore test coverage
• thinking about formal verification
• using memory safe languages
• choosing languages based on compiler verbosity to help pack the context window