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byMobyDisk ( 75490 ) writes:
A coworker who is a mechanical engineer developed a web-based tool 100% LLM coding. He had no prior coding experience. It wrote HTML for him, and took his JSON data and just threw it into the JavaScript files directly. It won't scale because the whole thing is client-side, and it added a bunch of junk files that do nothing. But he produced a 100% working tool that does exactly what he wants. He reached out to me and asked how to actually deploy it somewhere for a demo. I made him a web server, and he used the copilot in VS Code to deploy it. I keep asking him how things work, and he shrugs.
This was originally a prototype to show management that this tool is worth developing for real. But it works well enough that the team just uses it internally. He showed me that he added logging, and I asked how it works, and again he shrugged. The logs go into an azure storage blob that he can view. I have no idea how that works since it is entirely client-side. I bet the AI hard-coded some API key or credentials in there - but it's an internal tool so it kinda doesn't matter. At this point he is using features of Azure that I don't even know, so in a weird way I am jealous even though I'm the professional software engineer with 25 years of experience.
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