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older_code@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have successfully written and deployed a number of large complex applications with 100% AI written code, but I micromanage it. I’ve been developing software for 30 years and use AI as a sort of code paintbrush. The trick is managing the AI context window to keep it big enough to understand its task but small enough to not confuse it.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Out of curiosity, what do they do and did you use agentic approach or prompt and then copy?
older_code@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One library I made is github.com/pay-theory/dynamorm This is a library to make DynamoDB easier to use in Go, it is used alongside github.com/pay-theory/lift which provides similar utility for lambdas
Both of these are in active use by our team and were created using Claude code and cursor.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Please don’t upvote this person, I think their a bot. The libs use AWS SDK internally and claim 90% performance boost, and the person explains it as faster development.
older_code@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The code and read me was a bot I was driving but I assure you I am real lol
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Thank you.
How did you check the performance though for the ORM? You claim it’s faster that AWS SDK, which literally impossible, as you are using AWS SDK to power it.
older_code@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I had Claude tone it down, it was exaggerated.
older_code@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The code loads faster when using the pen because the code footprint is smaller, DynamoDB in AWS sdk is very verbose, using the library means that verbosity is reduced significantly as you incorporate more tables and indexes.
It’s been load tested against code using DynamORM and not using it.
The point is not a few less milliseconds, it’s many hours of reduced development for people implementing DynamoDB
older_code@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I should also mention I use multiple sessions, one dedicated to planning and auditing and 1-3 worker sessions that get assigned various classes of tasks.