TLDR Web Dev · OPINIONS & ADVICE

WHY I'M DIALING BACK MY LLM USAGE

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

When rebuilding infrastructure with Go and ClickHouse, this dev found that LLMs produced buggy and messy code, leading to a cycle of fixing one error only to create new ones. This experience showed a gap between the hype surrounding AI productivity and the reality of its limitations in production environments. Instead, LLMs are best for small tasks like refactoring.