After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain

TLDR: LLMs are okay at coding, but at scale they build jumbled messes. I’ve scaled back my use of AI when coding and gone back to using my brain and pen and paper. A few months ago I needed to build a new infrastructure for my SaaS, as the current PHP+MySQL combo was not fit for purpose anymore. I was excited about the opportunity to make the most of all the new LLMs I'd been playing with, so I set aside my SWE hat and I started acting as a product manager, chatting with Claude about best practices, doing some research on my own and then coming up with a plan, after many back and forths. I ended up choosing Go+Clickhouse. When it was time to start coding, I asked Claude to give me a big and complicated markdown file outlining my existing infrastructure, my desired new infrastructure, what I’m trying to achieve, why I'm doing it, etc. So I put it all inside Cursor Notepads and I start prompting away. Cursor writes code, I build it and test it. I'm quite happy with how things are goin ... Read full article.