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> it's basically "build a [tiny] product to specs", in a series of steps

That seems like exactly what the person you're replying to is saying - that sounds like basic standard product-engineering stuff, but simpler, like any of a million examples out there that an LLM has seen a million times. "Here's a problem LLMs are good at, wow, the people using the LLMs do best at it." Tautolgy.

So it's great for finding people who can use an LLM to do tiny product things.

In the same way takehomes had all the same limitations. More power to you if those are the people you are looking for, though.

But it also sounds like a process that most people with better options are gonna pass on most of the time. (Also like with takehomes.)



> "Here's a problem LLMs are good at, wow, the people using the LLMs do best at it."

Yes, product engineering, the thing that 90% of developers do most of their time.


But what LLM haven't look at ?


LLMs have looked at everything that exists so far. If all you're creating is yet another "Uber for Dogs", LLMs will do fine.

But if you want to create a paradigm shift, you need to do something new. Something LLMs don't yet know about.




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