[perrygeo]

> explore new approaches and connect ideas faster

This is the hidden super power of LLM - prototyping without attachment to the outcome.

Ten years ago, if you wanted to explore a major architectural decision, you would be bogged down for weeks in meetings convincing others, then a few more weeks making it happen. Then if it didn't work out, it feels like failure and everyone gets frustrated.

Now it's assumed you can make it work fast - so do it four different ways and test it empirically. LLMs bring us closer to doing actual science, so we can do away with all the voodoo agile rituals and high emotional attachment that used to dominate the decision process.

[empath75]

I basically just _accidentally_ added a major new feature to one of my projects this week.

In the sense that, I was trying to explain what I wanted to do to a coworker and my manager, and we kept going back and forth trying to understand the shape of it and what value it would add and how much time it would be worth spending and what priority we should put on it.

And I was like -- let me just spend like an hour putting together a partially working prototype for you, and claude got _so close_ to just completely one-shotting the entire feature in my first prompt, that I ended up spending 3 hours just putting the finishing touches on it and we shipped it before we even wrote a user story. We did all that work after it was already done. Claude even mocked up a fully interactive UI for our UI designer to work from.

It's literally easier and faster to just tell claude to do something than to explain why you want to do it to a coworker.

[sodapopcan]

That's only because no one understood agile or XP and they've become a "no one actually does that stuff" joke to many. I have first hand experience with prototyping full features in a day or two and throwing the result away. It comes with the added benefit of getting your hands dirty and being able to make more informed decisions when doing the actual implementation. It has always been possible, just most people didn't want to do it.