It's been approximately six months since I've spent an entire day just editing software in IDE. Six months without highlighting text on a screen and asking an LLM, or rather six months before attaching a snippet of code as context for an LLM in a chat panel to modify. Six months from having a terminal window open and iterating back and forth as an Anthropic or Composer or Codecs iterates quickly on the code in front of me. Six months since I've done anything other than look at a Markdown file detailing exactly the changes that are going to happen to me as I create them. The future of software has been changing so rapidly that I have yet to fully grasp or think about what will happen.

chat interfaces fundamentally limit how i interact with LLMs. they’re incredibly effective at showing the power of LLMs to a wide audience — specially in the days where agi felt more like fiction than the goal of the tech industry. and for that reason, they’ve become the de facto standard. but, in my opinion, flaws in their design hold me back from realizing the true creative potential of these models.