Sun 24 August 2025

Where's the Shovelware? (A Reply)

Posted by Al Sweigart in misc   

it works, and it works with a custom framework. but it's often overengineered. Refactoring is pretty easy, and only maybe 1 in 5 times does it make a hash of things.

it's great for the text editing bits, i found out about this while live streaming.

Stuff like, "add arrow keys and WASD keys"

it was great for prototyping. But then going through and making edits by hand became a chore. I could never quite trust it to write docstrings and documentation, which is worrying because so many devs hate doing this and leave it to the LLM.

It had weird bits where it would add or remove type hints that were unrelated to the change i asked for, including type hints that I previously added in.

It was nice to have a "oh, it should also do this thing" and be able ot provide a short description.

This is NOT a tool that non-programmers can use.


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