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>>meetpa+(OP)
My frustration with using these models for programming in the past has largely been around their tendency to hallucinate APIs that simply don't exist. The Gemini 2.5 models, both pro and flash, seem significantly less susceptible to this than any other model I've tried.

There are still significant limitations, no amount of prompting will get current models to approach abstraction and architecture the way a person does. But I'm finding that these Gemini models are finally able to replace searches and stackoverflow for a lot of my day-to-day programming.

>>segpha+J4
> no amount of prompting will get current models to approach abstraction and architecture the way a person does

I find this sentiment increasingly worrisome. It's entirely clear that every last human will be beaten on code design in the upcoming years (I am not going to argue if it's 1 or 5 years away, who cares?)

I wished people would just stop holding on to what amounts to nothing, and think and talk more about what can be done in a new world. We need good ideas and I think this could be a place to advance them.

>>jstumm+jH
This is said very confidently but until we see it happen there’s plenty of room for doubt.

My worst experiences with LLMs coding are from my own mistakes giving it the wrong intent. Inconsistent test cases. Laziness in explaining or even knowing what I actually want.

Architecture and abstraction happen in someone’s mind to be able to communicate intent. If intent is the bottleneck it will still come down to a human imagining the abstraction in their head.

I’d be willing to bet abstraction and architecture becomes the only thing left for humans to do.