[WhiteNoiz3]

I'm struggling to understand why an LLM even needs to be involved in this at all. Can't you write a script that takes the last 10 slack messages and checks the github status for any URLs and adds an emoji? It could be a script or slack bot and it would work far more reliably and cost nothing in LLM calls. IMO it seems far more efficient to have an LLM write a repeatable workflow once than calling an LLM every time.

[shimman]

This reminds of when Adam Wathan admitted that LLMs really helped his workflow due to automating the process for turning SVG's into react components... something that can be handled with a single script rather than calling an LLM every time like you mentioned.

Sometimes people just don't know better.

[westoncb]

That depends on the content of the SVGs.. Of course you can write a script to do a very literally kind of conversion of regardless, but in practice a lot of interpretation would be required, and could be done by an LLM. Simple case is an SVG that's a static presentation of a button; the intended React component could handle hover and click states and change the cursor appropriately and set aria label etc. For anything but trivial cases a script isn't going to get you far.

[PacificSpecific]

Reminds me of "XML to classes" and "JSON to classes"

[heliumtera]

Maybe the audience is not developers at all? Someone that does not know anything about computers and computation might not comprehend how easy or complex a given task is. For a whole class of people, checking a key in a json object might be as complex and difficult as creating a compiler. Some of those are in charge of evaluating progress and development of software. Here's the magic, by now everyone can understand that prompting and receiving an answer is easy.

[xtiansimon]

> “For a whole class of people, checking a key in a json object might be as complex and difficult as creating a compiler.”

Ugg. I think this is me. I’m self taught (never once made a compiler in a course or class) and making scripts for ETL at work mostly from CSV input. And JSON/APIs are aggravating to me.

I’ve yet to see the Matrix in JSON data structures (Is it storage? Is it wire protocol?). I can follow _examples_ in documentation, but struggle to put parts together from Swagger or some documentation to get the data view I need. For a while I thought some kind of UML diagramming projects would do it for me—to see the Forest and the trees—but the answer was not there.

So, yes, if I can “vibe” code with ChatIA to get over the mental structural hump to make the right joins and calls, I’m all in.

https://docs.clover.com/dev/docs/making-rest-api-calls

https://api.mobilebytes.com/