{"id":2171,"date":"2025-08-28T14:50:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:51:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:51:04","slug":"matteo-vaccari-partner-with-the-ai-throw-away-the-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2025\/08\/28\/matteo-vaccari-partner-with-the-ai-throw-away-the-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Matteo Vaccari: Partner with the AI, throw away the code"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Matteo Vaccari \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/martinfowler.com\/articles\/exploring-gen-ai\/partner-with-ai-and-throw-away-the-code.html\">Partner with the AI, throw away the code<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIn real LLM style, it looked plausible, and it mostly worked by accident, but did not really capture the correct algorithm.<\/p><p>At this point I understood the problem deeply enough. I rewrote the core algorithm from scratch with my own hands, focusing on clarity and simplicity and, wow! It passed all the tests.<\/p><p>Takeaway: build understanding gradually, using AI to drive experiments and prototypes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matteo Vaccari \u2013 Partner with the AI, throw away the code: \u201cIn real LLM style, it looked plausible, and it mostly worked by accident, but did not really capture the correct algorithm. At this point I understood the problem deeply enough. I rewrote the core algorithm from scratch with my own hands, focusing on clarity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog","tag-links"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}