I think this is the first time I've seen someone refer to an LLM as "he" rather than "it". No judgement, but I definitely found it interesting (and disconcerting).

What’s fun for me these days is picking up a project I started with an LLM doing agent driven development a few months ago or even a year ago and hit a wall and stopped being able to be picked up by the latest version of Claude and/or codex and bringing it further. Some can now launch some still are too complex for the agent to build. But, it’s getting easier and easier to build personal apps. We are not far off from being able to say “Alexa, build me an app on my iPhone that lets me take pictures of the food in my fridge to compile the nutritional benefits and sync it with my workout app then compare it to the ideal ingredients I should eat based on my fitness goals in my health app and have it set to send me emails where it can find me better ingredients to buy that are cost effective, local, and meet my diet restrictions” and in 15 minutes that app suddenly exists.

On the topic of procedural, one thing I experiment with is having the llm part of the procedural loop.

Sort of writing a narrative on top live.

Unfortunately, local models are still a bit slow and weak but was interesting to see what it came up with nonetheless.

Isn't Godot a little ill-designed to work well with LLMs? for example I ended up a couple of times with incorrect tres files, and letting the llm generate IDs feel a little fragile.

effort needed used to be a gatekeeper for bad ideas

now Claude will gas you up and tell you your bad ideas are actually the most amazing thing it’s ever heard

> And when you inevitably get bored with it, well, you've not done much anyway.

I'm very interested in Local LLMs but the cheapest Mac Studio right now is more expensive than 8 years of a Claude Code Pro subscription, and incomparably slower/less capable. If I get bored with it, I will have a piece of unused hardware and a couple grand less in my bank account.

I find $200/month for the pro/max subscriptions cost prohibivitve, but as a software enginere $20/month is just lunch.

And with a Claude or GPT $20 Subscription, i can do other fun things too like using it for real things (emails) or image generation.

A Mac Studio or AMD395 is neither of it. And its not just a basic setup either. I need to buy it, configure it, put it somewhere. That alone is a grand and more + a whole weekend.

Buying hardware is paying a "random corporation". Make the massive hardware purchase after finding out if you have enough demand to buy rather than rent,

Yeah. I setup opencode + qwen 3.6 last weekend.

It's actually really cool to have it work on some internal tooling and stuff while I work on my primary projects.

I'm surprised how easy it is to setup and that it can handle modestly complex planning and development flows.

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Quality, simplicity, speed.

I have a ML Setup with 2 4090 and 128gb of ram, its warm when i use them for finetuning or batch processes.

I do not run them for coding. Its a lot easier and nicer to play around with better models for just 20 $.

Well they are subsidizing us for starters.

The author got $50 free credits.

Also Anthropic is by far the best, open (local) models are glorified autocomplete at best unless you casually have 20k€ worth of hardware at home.

To use agentic what? Off topic as heck but I really dislike this trend of coercing adjectives into true nominals - we're using programmatic! - like some sort of even-more-obnoxious variant on the verb to noun ('the ask') process.

Why does it bother me so? I have no idea.

It’s ok to use coding assistance tools for anything you’d like! Not that you needed the permission of some random on the internet.

Oh? How very kind of the author to allow me to.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079