Tell HN: LLMs finally allow amateurs to build simple software

5 points by galfarragem ↗ HN
It's game-changing.

This may not be exactly game-changing among experienced programmers, but for me, as an amateur, it is: I just built two simple Chrome extensions with Claude that worked like a charm on the first attempt! I tried to build the same extensions some months ago, but despite the code looking good (I have built a couple of Chrome extensions 'by hand' myself), I didn't manage to debug them. Now they just work.

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Same! Pretty amazing to just speak ideas and have them come to life.

I am curious if there are better set ups that Claude or ChatGPT for coding? I'm sure there must be. Right now I have to cut and paste and often use multiple responses together. Curious if anyone has suggestions.

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For experienced programmers, LLMs are useful to code in languages you are not familiar with, i.e. Golang.