Me:: Everybody can and should prototype: Simon Willison:: Preferring throwaway code over design docs
Discovered: Dec 16, 2024 16:58 Me:: Everybody can and should prototype: Simon Willison:: Preferring throwaway code over design docs <– Agreed and maybe with LLMs so-called “non software developers” (IMHO everybody who can do a pivot table in a spreadsheet and/or complicated spreadsheet formulas is a software developer) can write some crude code and create a very rough prototype (of course no code prototypes are always awesome too) instead of overly verbose specs :-) <– QUOTE: The thing I love about issue comments (or PR comments) for recording ongoing design decisions is that because they incorporate a timestamp there's no implicit expectation to keep them up to date as the software changes.